A five-year surveillance study in Jigawa State, Nigeria, documents the re-emergence of pertussis with a 7.3 percent ...

A new study from Zhejiang Province finds that pertussis imposes a substantial economic burden on adults over sixty, with ...

Roseland Community Hospital will stop delivering babies on Oct. 31, adding to South Side maternity closures. Its OB clinic will stay open. LA County issued an extreme heat warning for Oct. 2 to 8, ...

For the second year in a row, the US has surpassed 25,000 whooping cough cases — another sign of the risks of falling vaccination levels. Often called the “100-day cough,” whooping cough or pertussis ...

A devastating respiratory infection once thought to be primarily a childhood concern is making an alarming comeback among adults, catching the medical community and patients completely off guard.

A 1940s experiment put a cat on a cow and popped paper bags to show that fear blocks milk letdown. The hormone link still matters for nursing parents. A Doctor Notched His Thumbnail Every Month for 35 ...

Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a vaccination-preventable illness that has been on the rise in the United States. Following a several-year lull during the pandemic, cases of whooping cough ...

When someone has whooping cough, the sound can be unmistakable: A deep, gasping "whoop" as they struggle to catch their breath between fits of coughing. Now, this once-rare illness, also known as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At just 2 weeks old, Feleena Owens was struggling to breathe. The newborn was coughing so badly, her skin turned a sickly ...

MANITOWOC – Both measles and whooping cough cases have spiked dramatically throughout the U.S. — and Wisconsin has confirmed cases of both of these highly contagious diseases. As kids head back to ...

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is working with the Mecklenburg County Health Department after cases of tuberculosis and pertussis, also known as whooping cough, were identified at two Charlotte schools ...

Whooping cough cases are on the rise, with Kentucky reporting its third infant death since the start of the year. "KDPH confirmed none of the infants who died of pertussis in Kentucky over the past 12 ...