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 ...

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).

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota is seeing the highest number of whooping cough cases in eight years. The state health department reports more than a thousand cases of the respiratory infection so far ...

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?

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 ...

(WXYZ) — Whooping cough cases are on the rise. Henry Ford Health’s lab went from zero cases in July to 33 in September. Nationally, numbers have soared with ...

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.

At least 70 whooping cough cases were reported the week of Oct ... “We’re having better PCR tests, or the molecular tests, that have been rolled into these other comprehensive respiratory ...

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 ...