Health officials were keeping their fingers crossed today that no more children have fallen ill in an outbreak of whooping cough at a primary school. At least 23 children have fallen ill with the ...

Minnesota is reporting the highest number of whooping cough cases in more than a decade, the state Department of Health says. As of last Wednesday, 2,324 cases of whooping cough, also called ...

Veronica McNally from West Bloomfield has made it her life's work to talk about vaccines and pertussis, also known as ...

The U.S. has seen 16 measles outbreaks this year — 89% of cases are in unvaccinated people — and a whooping cough epidemic is the worst since 2012. “So that’s how we’re starting out ...

whooping cough, and meningitis, or even polio. “The litany of things that will start to topple is profound,” said James Hodge, a public health law expert at Arizona State University’s Sandra ...

In this case-control study, incomplete pertussis vaccination was a significant risk factor for developing pertussis among school children. Receiving the fifth dose at 4 years of age was associated ...

Outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases are occurring in the United States and will continue as long as these diseases circulate throughout the world. The epidemiology of each vaccine ...

Kennedy Jr., the country’s best-known anti-vaccine activist, as its top health official, infectious disease and public health experts and vaccine advocates say a confluence of factors could cause ...