GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - As students head back to school, health officials warn that whooping cough rates are on the rise. Over 8,000 cases of whooping cough have been reported in the United ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Holiday cheer is in the air, and so are infections. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whooping cough cases in the United States are beginning to ...

If you’ve heard the telltale cough and seen an infant gasp for breath, it’s easy to understand why a pertussis outbreak strikes fear in a parent’s heart. Babies can wind up hospitalized or even die ...

Umatilla County first reported an outbreak of the bacterial disease earlier this month. Public health officials said the respiratory illness has now spread in multiple schools. As of Wednesday morning ...

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 ...