Australia is battling the largest whooping cough epidemic in history since the invention of vaccines against the deadly ...

Cases of walking pneumonia, a milder form of lung infection, are surging across the US, particularly impacting young children ...

Researchers at UNSW Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have developed a new genomic test that can identify the specific strains of whooping cough (bacterium Bordetella pertussis).

The most common symptoms of a chest infection include a persistent cough, wheezing, breathlessness, a high temperature, ...

Infections tend to be most common among older children and adolescents but in 2024 have been rampant among young children, ...