MILWAUKEE — Whooping cough is at its highest level in a decade ... rates dipped last year and vaccine exemptions are at an all-time high. Thursday, it released state figures, showing that ...

A young boy (18 months) with a nasty cough ... all into perspective in an interview. “The first Pertussis vaccine was available in 1947; it was a whole killed bacteria,” he began. “At the ...

Washington state is experiencing a spike in whooping cough cases with nearly 1,200 reported cases so far this year, that's up ...

At the same time last year, 3,382 cases had been ... while the infection runs its course. While whooping cough can be serious for all ages, children younger than 1 are particularly sensitive ...