Officials: "We are taking precautions to prevent future infections. However, we want all faculty, students and staff to be ...

SPOKANE, Wash - As whooping cough cases climb throughout Spokane County, schools are sending notes home with students about ...

Last week’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the federal Department of Health and Human Services in the second ...

SAN DIEGO — San Diego health officials are warning about a sharp rise in whooping cough and walking pneumonia cases. Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a highly contagious respiratory ...

Spokane kids are getting sick from whooping cough, and health officials warn the outbreak will likely last into the spring. As of Friday, 140 cases of whooping cough, also called pertussis, have been ...

A new nasal whooping cough vaccine showed an ability to prevent both infection and transmission of the disease in mice. Current vaccines offer treatment but fail to halt transmission of the bacteria ...

According to a press release from Whitman County Public Health (WCPH), the department is continuing its investigation into the outbreak. There have been 63 reported cases of pertussis, with an ...

“As it gets worse, the cough can become severe and last for weeks or even months. The coughing can make it hard to breathe.

A whooping cough outbreak is currently making its way across the Inland Northwest, leaving many families worried about ...

Although the disease may produce only a mild, persistent cough in adults or adolescents, young children exposed to the ...

Spokane County is in the midst of an outbreak of whooping cough, with nearly twice the infections locally so far than the ...

Whooping cough cases are continuing to increase in Clark County, as well as chickenpox outbreaks, mainly in unvaccinated ...