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 ...
Early symptoms present similarly to a cold, but an infected person can experience coughing for weeks or months — much longer than the common cold. Reported cases of whooping cough have surged ...
Whooping cough is highly transmissible, on the order of measles, Tan noted. Anyone can become infected, but babies younger than 6 months, people with immune deficiencies and the elderly are at ...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Whooping cough is on the rise in certain ... so the standard series is 5 injections before 5 years old and then a booster injection is done prior to entry into middle ...