President Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, Casey Means, on Wednesday said she won’t broadly encourage parents to ...

Health department officials said they are working closely with school officials to find students and staff who may have been ...

Cascade Public Schools officials recently confirmed two cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, triggering outreach to families and reminders about illness protocols. According to district ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It can be hard to differentiate pertussis from other viruses. Design Pics/Don Hammond via Getty Images Among the many contagious ...

The Cascade City-County Health Department was notified of a whooping cough case in a student who attends Cascade School.

Louisiana has reported two infant deaths from whooping cough in 2025, the first deaths since 2018. The state has seen 164 cases of whooping cough this year, the highest number in 35 years. Health ...

Preliminary CDC data shows 8,485 whooping cough cases reported in 2025—twice as many as this time last year. Experts link the rise to declining childhood vaccination rates and growing anti-vaccine ...

Editor’s note: So far this year, there have been 15 confirmed cases of whooping cough in Wyandotte County and 195 cases overall in Kansas. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Wyandotte County Public Health ...

LOUISIANA, USA — State health officials say no new measles cases have been detected across the state. Doctors say if small children or infants get whooping cough, it could be fatal. The Louisiana ...

Two cases of a contagious respiratory illness have been confirmed at an elementary school in Wayne County, according to the county health department.

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Medical experts provided tips on how to protect your children from increasing cases of whooping cough in West Virginia. Dr. Michael Kilkenny, CEO and Health Officer of the ...

Among the many contagious diseases circulating right now — RSV, walking pneumonia and norovirus among them — is one that you may not have heard of for a while, or perhaps had assumed was an illness of ...