U.S. Whooping Cough Cases Rising, Especially in Teens, CDC Says
U.S. health officials have warned for months about a resurgence in breakthrough infections in older children and adults, even though unvaccinated young children and newborns of unvaccinated moms remain the most vulnerable to both infection and severe disease, CBS News reported.
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Whooping cough wave now the worst in almost a decade, as back-to-school season sees surgeThis year's resurgence of whooping cough cases has now accelerated to the fastest pace on record in nearly a decade, ...
Health authorities are urging at-risk Tasmanians to get vaccinated against the highly infectious illness, as the state is in ...
Virginia is seeing one of the biggest spikes: from 66 cases last year to nearly 400 cases in 2024, five times the rate.
The Department of Health Services says whooping cough is also high nationwide. Pertussis starts with cold-like symptoms and develops into a cough. It can trigger violent, uncontrollable coughing fits ...
"People have coughed so hard they've actually broken ribs with pertussis. So, definitely that's not something that we like to see." said Dr. Huse.
This year's resurgence of whooping cough cases has now accelerated to the fastest pace on record in nearly a decade, according to figures published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and ...
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