California is one of the hot spots in the country right now” for the highly contagious disease, one medical expert said.

Rates of the bacterial infection have gone up by 500% since last year, with babies and young children most at risk.

A Pasadena resident tested positive for whooping cough after visiting the Kidspace Children's Museum last week, authorities ...

As measles cases continue to crop up across the U.S., so too are cases of another highly contagious disease. Whooping cough, known clinically as pertussis, has caused the death of at least five ...

With whooping cough cases on the rise, Singh recommends the vaccine for children who are not up-to-date on their doses or adults who have gone more than 10 years without a booster. “The risk ...

Cases of whooping cough are climbing across the country this ... with the preferred age of administration being 11 to 12 years old. Adults who never received Tdap should receive a single dose.

While both adults and children can get it, children under 1 year old are most likely to suffer serious illness or death as a result of contracting whooping cough, according to the CDC. It is most ...

Whooping cough, a bacterial infection that can be especially dangerous ... one school-age child and one adult. Although ...

Unlike his predecessors, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has yet to launch a national immunization campaign as the threat ...

The disease is most severe in young babies, although severe cases and deaths can also occur in older children and adults. Some doctors call pertussis "the 100-day cough" because symptoms can ...