New details from health officials suggest the whooping cough surge may be part of a national pattern driven by slipping ...

Texas faces its worst whooping cough outbreak in over a decade with a rise in cases and declining vaccination rates, ...

Louisiana’s whooping cough outbreak is now the worst in 35 years, after cases dramatically outpaced the previous record high over the summer and hospitalizations continued to rise among young infants.

Like measles, which is also spreading at unprecedented levels, whooping cough, more formally known as pertussis, can be prevented by a safe and effective vaccine. But with anti-vaccine sentiment ...

More than 3,500 cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, cases have been reported in Texas so far this year, already reaching a ...

The U.S. is facing the worst whooping cough epidemic in 50 years, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control Prevention, NBC News reported. Nationwide nearly 18,000 cases have been reported to ...

Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is on the rise in Austin-Travis County with more than 130 cases so far this year.