MADISON, Wis. (WSAW) - The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) is reporting a significant increase in cases of ...

LANSING, Mich. — Health officials in Michigan are urging people to stay up to date with the pertussis vaccine as cases are on the rise this year. The Michigan Department of Health and Human ...

As of Sept. 13, DHS had logged 625 confirmed cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, in 2024. That's compared to 51 cases last year. So far this year, two-thirds of Wisconsin counties have reported ...

This now marks the most infections of the bacteria Bordatella pertussis reported to the CDC in a single week since 2015, when the country was coming off a resurgence of whooping cough cases that ...

As of 5 October 2024, a total of 17,579 pertussis cases had been reported in residents in the US (excluding territories). The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recorded 18,617 ...

WHITMAN COUNTY, Wash. — Several students at Washington State University (WSU) have been diagnosed with a confirmed case of pertussis, which is also known as whooping cough. Whitman County Public ...

Using data from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS), the CDC compared the vaccination ... childhood vaccines including polio, pertussis, diphtheria and tetanus (DTaP), measles ...

DHS shared vaccine data with the Centers for Disease Control ... The CDC noted Wisconsin children were also behind national vaccination rates for polio, pertussis and diptheria and tetanus (DTaP).

This story was updated to add new information. Whooping cough cases in Wisconsin are 12 times higher than last year, with case counts reaching pre-pandemic levels, the Wisconsin Department of ...