A highly contagious respiratory illness is on the rise in the United States this year. Cases of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, have surged to pre-pandemic levels in 2024, according to the ...

SAN ANTONIO – Texas is seeing the highest number of whooping cough cases in more than a decade. More than 3,500 cases have been reported across the state through October this year, according to the ...

Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, has reached a record high, with over 3,500 cases reported in Texas to date, according to a Texas Department of State Health Services health alert. Preliminary ...

Whooping cough cases in Arkansas have set a 15-year high of 469 cases since Jan. 1, with children aged 10-19 being the most ...

Mississippi is seeing higher numbers of whooping cough cases in 2025 that in the last 15 years, according to the Mississippi State Department of Health. Hush Naidoo Jade Photography via Unsplash Hush ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - It’s a disease that health officials said hasn’t been seen at this level in more than a decade. “In West Virginia we have not seen this number of cases of whooping cough in ...

This 2016 illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based on electron microscope imagery, depicts Bordetella pertussis bacteria, which causes whooping cough. (Meredith ...