For the second year in a row, the US has surpassed 25,000 whooping cough cases — another sign of the risks of falling ...

This file photo shows an empty bottle of Tetanus, Diphthera and Pertussis, (whooping cough) vaccine. Washington state has seen its pertussis surge from 2024 carry over into the early months of 2025.

Whooping cough cases are on the rise in the United States, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For the week ending April 12, at least 8,064 whooping cough cases have ...

Nearly 1,200 cases have been reported in Washington compared to 51 last year. Whooping cough cases are surging in Washington state, mirroring trends seen across the United States, health officials are ...

Whoopingcough might sound like a disease from another era. But the illness, also called pertussis, is alive and well in the U.S. Known as a childhood illness, whooping cough is actually most common in ...

When there's an outbreak of a vaccine-preventable disease, state health officials typically take certain steps to alert residents and issue public updates about the growing threat. That's standard ...

Just four months into 2025, Washington had already recorded more cases of pertussis, better known as whooping cough, than it had in all but three full years since 1960. But as alarming as that number ...