Whooping cough cases are on the rise as the vaccination rate for the highly contagious respiratory illness drops, a new investigation has found. Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is caused by a ...

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Among the many contagious diseases circulating right now — RSV, walking pneumonia and norovirus among them — is one that you may not have heard of for a while, or perhaps had assumed was an illness of ...

Preliminary CDC data shows 8,485 whooping cough cases reported in 2025—twice as many as this time last year. Experts link the rise to declining childhood vaccination rates and growing anti-vaccine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whooping cough, or pertussis, is caused by the Bordetella pertussis bacteria. - Meredith Newlove/CDC/AP For the second year in a ...

Pertussis, known for the distinctive “whoop” that accompanies severe coughing fits, can last up to 10 weeks and lead to ...

Four children died from measles and whooping cough, preventable diseases. Sen. Bill Cassidy and other health officials advocate for vaccinations. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine ...

Parents on Wednesday were notified of a whooping cough case at a Wake County school. According to the Wake County Public School System, Leesville Road High School sent a letter to parents stating the ...

SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. -- North Pines Middle School is alerting parents their children may have been exposed to whooping cough this week. According to Principal Dr. Jeremy Vincent, the exposure may ...

The Arizona Department of Health Services attributes one death in the state to whooping cough in 2025, a 19-month-old ...

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy , and give us feedback . More than 3,500 cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, cases have been ...