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A local high school has confirmed its first case of whooping cough for this school year. Fairmont High School sent a letter ...
North Carolina isn't the only area where whooping cough is on the rise. Cases are spiking across the nation, with the Centers ...
A baby whose mother was not vaccinated against whooping cough while pregnant has died after contracting the infection, the UK ...
The U.S. is experiencing more than four times as many whooping cough cases compared with last year — a spike that some ...
NORFOLK, Va. — Health experts say whooping cough cases are on the rise, with twice as many cases reported compared to this time last year. Those at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ...
"The whole-cell pertussis vaccine, while more effective, also caused more side effects because it had more antigens in it," Dr. Jason Terk, a pediatrician at Cook Children’s Health Care System in ...
Health officials in Jasper County are warning of an uptick in whooping cough cases. Jasper County Health personnel say that for an illness like this to be stopped from spreading, there needs to be a ...
Whooping cough cases in Louisiana are on track to post a record high for the year - the highest in 35 years. Mirroring national trends, the Louisiana Department of Health is reporting they've ...
An Orange County baby died from whooping cough, the first confirmed infant death from the disease since 2018, health officials announced Thursday. The California Department of Public Health did not ...
CONTACT THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE. HAYWOOD COUNTY, WHERE ANOTHER CASE OF PERTUSSIS, ALSO KNOWN AS WHOOPING COUGH, HAS BEEN REPORTED. THAT’S UP FROM FIVE CASES REPORTED EARLIER THIS WEEK. NOW, SIX REPORTED ...
A baby whose mother had not been vaccinated against whooping cough has died after contracting the ... The infection gets its name from the distinctive “whoop” sound that young children can make as ...