Central District Health (CDH) announced one of their residents died from pertussis.CDH covers Ada, Boise, Elmore and Valley ...

Central District Health announced the death on Monday, March 3, marking the first fatal case in an outbreak that has been ...

The measles outbreak is surging in West Texas, especially in under-vaccinated communities, but it’s not just coverage with ...

New data from the Allegheny County Health Department shows sharp increases in rates of pertussis, Hepatitis C, and other ...

Bagdasarian also recommends ensuring kids take in a lot of fluids and said over the counter medicines like Tylenol and ...

Central District Health says an adult died of pertussis in February. The health district covers Ada, Boise, Elmore and Valley ...

Although in the post-Covid-19 era, pertussis incidences soared spectacularly, pertussis cases were already on the rise before ...

The updated Infectious Disease Dashboard gives residents a reader-friendly way to track reportable diseases in Allegheny ...

Whooping cough, due to Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis, is an important cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. Despite widespread pertussis immunization in childhood ...

That marks the most fatalities from the bacterial infection since a 2017 surge of the illness, which is also known as pertussis. Over the last month, pertussis infections have been rising again.

The disease, often referred to as pertussis, has affected 71 Oklahomans since the start of the year. Last year, Oklahoma finished the year with 469 total cases—just about 1% of the 35,493 ...

Young infants are at more risk because they don't get the first of six doses of the vaccine until they are two months old. So, before that, they are unprotected and more likely to die from whooping ...