Whooping cough

A rise in reported cases of whooping cough in causing concern in the greater Philadelphia area, health officials say.

Whooping cough

Whooping cough infections in Michigan are currently on track to be more than double what they have been in recent years, health experts have warned.

Pertussis

The Tioga County Health Department in New York state has reported five new cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, this week.

Pertussis

Nebraska is the latest state to show a surge in pertussis, or whooping cough, cases, while national totals continue to rise.

While health officials in California have reported the seventh infant death in the state this year, other states across the country are beginning to report an increase in pertussis whooping cough cases.

Whooping cough

A seventh infant has died as a result of California's whooping cough epidemic, which officials have said could be the worst outbreak in 50 years.

Whooping cough

Oregon health officials have expressed concern that the whooping cough epidemic currently taking place in California could soon cross the border into their state.

Pertussis

Federal health officials are currently searching for the cause of what is set to be California’s worst pertussis, or whooping cough, outbreak in the last 50 years, in hopes that the information may be able to slow the disease's transmission.

Whooping cough

As California faces one of the state's worst whooping cough outbreaks in more than 50 years, which has resulted in six infant deaths and 1500 confirmed infections, Texas health department officials have now begun reporting increases in whooping cough infe

Pertussis

Twice the average numbers of cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, have been reported so far this year in Idaho.

Whooping cough

Researchers with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced this week that the whooping cough vaccine is not linked to toddler seizures.

Pertussis

The state of California and the city and county of San Francisco have recommended a pertussis vaccine for women in their third trimester in light of the recent whooping cough epidemic in the state.

Whooping cough

As many as 900 people may have been exposed to an whooping cough by someone with an undiagnosed case of the infection at Michigan State University's Grandparents University from June 29 to July 1.

Pertussis

California county and state health reports have debunked speculation that the reason Fresno County was hardest hit by the current whooping cough epidemic was because of unvaccinated Hispanic farmworkers spreading the disease.

Whooping cough

Health officials in Orange County, California, have reported that whooping cough cases continue to climb, although no new local deaths have been reported.

Pertussis

Officials from the Southern Nevada Health District, which includes the city of Las Vegas, urged that residents, particularly children, be immunized against pertussis, also known as whooping cough.

Pertussis

Following the declaration by the California Department of Public Health of a pertussis epidemic, reports of pertussis activity have spiked nationwide.

Pertussis

The whooping cough epidemic in California - the worst in 50 years - has given credence to a proposed bill for mandatory whooping cough booster shots.

Whooping cough

California's low immunization rates might be at the heart of the recent whooping cough epidemic, public health officials have said.

Pertussis

While health officials in California have recently declared a whopping cough epidemic, their counterparts in Columbus, Ohio have also noted a significant rise in cases.

While California faces one of its worst whooping cough outbreaks in 50 years, New York, Indiana and Oregon have seen cases of the disease steadily increase, worrying public health officials.

Pertussis

In the face of one of the worst whooping cough outbreaks in the state's history, California's rural doctors have raised concerns that vaccines to prevent the disease are too expensive.

Pertussis

Health officials in California have reported that almost 1,000 cases of whooping cough have been confirmed in the state since June 15, with five infant deaths attributed to the outbreak.

Pertussis

Whooping cough is making a comeback on the West Coast, HealthNews reports in a May 30 article.

Pentavalent Vaccine

HANOI, Vietnam — Following the increasing impact of the GAVI Alliance on the vaccine market, the price of one of the major combination vaccines, the pentavalent, is falling considerably.