Weld County is experiencing its worst outbreak of whooping cough in 20 years, according to county health officials. They report that since December 2...
By Corrie Pikul Here's what you should know about four retro diseases that are still around -- and a fifth that's back with a vengeance. 1. The ...
March 12 (Reuters) - Protection against whooping cough starts to weaken a few years after preschool children get their final shot, according to a U....
NEW YORK -- Researchers have discovered the first U.S. cases of whooping cough caused by a germ that may be resistant to the vaccine. Health official...
The nation just suffered its worst year for whooping cough in nearly six decades, according to preliminary government figures. Whooping cough ebbs an...
By Genevra Pittman Nov 27 (Reuters Health) - Unvaccinated youngsters were nine times more likely to contract whooping cough during a ...
Clinical experience indicates that homeopathic medicine is a viable option for pertussis. However, mainstream medicine's general unwillingness to consider any therapy that is not manufactured by PhRMA tends to blind it to potentially new and/or unexplored treatments.
ATLANTA — An expert panel is urging every expecting mother to get a shot preventing whooping cough, preferably in the last three months of her p...
NEW YORK — As the U.S. wrestles with its biggest whooping cough outbreak in decades, researchers appear to have zeroed in on the main cause: The...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Parents who send their children to private schools in California are much more likely to opt out of immunizations than thei...
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Today, even though we have this information as well as how they are transmitted, there is still the likelihood of a widespread epidemic occurring if steps are not taken to protect our families and communities. Vaccination is one of these steps and by doing so you just might become a hero yourself.
ATLANTA — Whooping cough was once a terrible menace to U.S. children, with hundreds of thousands of cases reported annually. Then a vaccine drov...
ATLANTA -- The U.S. appears headed for its worst year for whooping cough in more than five decades, with the number of cases rising at an epidemic rat...
SEATTLE -- Washington state's worst outbreak of whooping cough in decades has prompted health officials to declare an epidemic, seek help from federal...
LOS ANGELES — California did not suffer a single death from whooping cough in 2011, the first year since 1991 that there have been no fatalities...
The bubonic plague. Scarlet fever. Polio. Diseases of the past, and no longer on this Earth, right? Wrong. Many old-time diseases are still pr...
ATLANTA — The whooping cough vaccine given to babies and toddlers loses much of its effectiveness after just three years – a lot faster than docto...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Some California schools are turning away middle and high school students who have not received a required whooping cough vaccine whil...
Thirty-eight cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, have been reported in the Town of Smithtown in Long Island, N.Y., the Suffolk County De...
ATLANTA -- A federal advisory panel is recommending that pregnant women get vaccinated against whooping cough. The Advisory Committee on Immunization...
In the midst of one of the worst whooping cough epidemics our country has seen in half a century, the majority of California's schoolchildren may not ...
DENVER -- Some Colorado doctors are refusing to see patients who have not been vaccinated, pointing to recent whooping cough outbreaks in California a...
ATLANTA — More than 21,000 people got whooping cough last year, many of them children and teens. That's the highest number since 2005 and among the ...
Whooping cough is a very contagious disease caused by the bacteria Bordetella pertussis. It is spread from person to person, usually by sneezing or coughing, often at distances of five feet or less.
