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 ...

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 ...

Cases of COVID-19 have waned in the weeks since the launch of the latest booster shot and the beginning of the academic ...

Though rates of the illness had been low since the onset of the pandemic, the number of reported cases this year — almost 20,000 — is similar to pre-pandemic levels.

But what kind of sickness do your symptoms point to? Here's a breakdown for COVID-19, flu and more — and why testing is so ...

Colorado labs test McDonald’s beef patties for E. coli The local health departments aren’t alone: In July, the Centers for Disease Control issued a warning that whooping cough was returning to ...

On Friday, Oct. 25, parents at Captain Shreve High School received information via a pre-recorded phone call stating a single 11th grade student had been positively diagnosed with whooping cough.

Three new cases of whooping cough in Anne Arundel County that made headlines in Maryland this week are part of an ongoing uptick of the highly contagious disease in the United States. But as ...

Whooping cough, a serious and sometimes fatal disease, is on the rise across the U.S., often affecting young children and babies and sometimes resembling a cold in its early symptoms. The Centers ...

After a rise in cases over the summer, whooping cough is continuing to spread across ... 1 strain accounting for about 43% of test results as of mid-October. COVID hospitalizations have decreased ...

Arizonans who have respiratory symptoms this fall and winter may want to add whooping cough to the list of possible causes. Reported cases of whooping cough, a highly contagious and potentially ...