Whooping cough, or pertussis, is on the rise in the Bay Area ... Pertussis is so contagious that if one person in a family tests positive, the entire household is typically prescribed antibiotics to ...

Health officials are warning about the rise of multiple infections this season — especially among school-aged children — including whooping cough and walking pneumonia. According to the ...

Massachusetts health officials are monitoring increasing cases of whooping cough and pneumonia. Children and adolescents are primarily affected by those bacterial respiratory illnesses, Public Health ...

Researchers at UNSW Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have developed a new genomic test that can identify the specific strains of whooping cough (bacterium Bordetella pertussis).

Free COVID tests return as CDC says this one variant now accounts for nearly 60% of cases Experts say it usually takes 5 to 10 days for whooping cough symptoms to appear after an individual is ...

and by identifying the illness early on through medical tests, treatment can begin to reduce the chances of extreme illness. Because the bacteria that cause whooping cough spread easily via small ...

WASHINGTON — Whooping cough cases are continuing to rise in the United States, with new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showing that there are five times as many ...

Q: I’ve been seeing a lot of news stories about whooping cough. Is there really another illness that we need worry about? What is whooping cough, and how do you get it? What is the treatment?

Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window Whooping cough is at its highest level in a decade for this time of year, U.S. health officials reported Thursday.

MILWAUKEE — Whooping cough is at its highest level in a decade for this time of year, U.S. health officials reported Thursday. There have been 18,506 cases of whooping cough reported so far ...

Whooping cough is at its highest level in a decade for this time of year, U.S. health officials reported Thursday. There have been 18,506 cases of whooping cough reported so far, the Centers for ...