Parents and expectant mums are being urged to ensure flu and other vaccinations are up to date to protect them from respiratory illnesses ...

Meanwhile, 8 per cent of babies remain unvaccinated against whooping cough at age one ... after the film aired two years ago. 'I didn't read them,' says Vicky, who owns a company selling ...

whooping cough, measles, diphtheria, tuberculosis, tetanus, hepatitis B, polio. No smallpox; worldwide vaccination had already erased that disfiguring contagion from the planet by 1980 ...

Since the colonial days, the root has been used as a home remedy for migraine, fever, bronchitis, whooping cough, neuralgia ... impurities before they make their way into creeks and rivers. They are ...

This year could be a decade-high for whooping cough cases in Washington state, according to numbers by the state Department ...

Washington is not alone in its sharp rise of the highly contagious bacterial infection this year. It's been an unusually bad year for whooping cough in the United States, which has counted more than ...

So far, 28 people have been sent to the hospital because of whooping cough, including 12 infants ... Most infants receive a ...

Prior to a rise that started in the late 1980s and culminated in the 2012 spike, case counts had routinely been in the low triple digits since a steep decline over the 1940s and 1950s. As a result, if ...

Whooping cough cases are surging across the country. The illness causes a signature “whooping” sound after someone coughs. Coughs can linger for months afterward. Respiratory illness season ...

Whooping cough spreads through bacteria transmitted through the air. The infection is most commonly spread at schools, child care centers and hospitals. Many people can be contagious up to two ...

Whooping cough cases have jumped sharply year over year but remain in line with pre-pandemic numbers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday. The CDC, which tracks ...

WELL, WHOOPING ... COUGH IS CAUSED BY A BACTERIA CALLED AS BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS. IT IS A HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS RESPIRATORY ILLNESS THAT CAN INITIALLY LOOK VERY MUCH SIMILAR TO COMMON COLD. THE FIRST ...