Cases of whooping cough are climbing across the country this year, with about 6,600 already documented — nearly four times the number at the same point last year. Given the rise in cases, I wanted to ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Infection can cause an acute respiratory illness characterized by severe and spasmodic coughing spells. The classic symptom of ...

A new CDC study finds that young children who received three or more doses of the DTaP vaccine had 96.2% protection against ...

A retrospective single-center cohort study of 722 hospitalized children found that age, vaccination status and admission ...

Published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the study found that ​unvaccinated children had ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Cases of whooping cough rose to more than 35,000 in the U.S. in 2024, ...

Young girl coughs while wrapped in a blanket. Whooping cough can cause severe bouts of coughing. But babies, who are most vulnerable to the disease, may not cough at all. Cases of whooping cough are ...

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International research led by Radboud University Medical Center shows that vaccinating women during pregnancy leads to the transfer of antibodies to their newborns. Antibodies from the mother are ...

The odds of a lab-confirmed whooping cough case were about 26 times higher in unvaccinated children than in those who were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration depicts a 3D, computer-generated image of a group of Bordetella pertussis bacteria. If someone infected with ...