Officials released an update Friday morning regarding an increase in cases of whooping cough in Haywood County. Haywood ...

Haywood County health officials say another case of pertussis has been confirmed, increasing the total number of active cases ...

Experts at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) said the rising cases of pertussis (whooping cough) in the ...

This chart shows the number of global cases of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases, by year.

We may be in the middle of summer, but now is the time to get your kids their back-to-school vaccines. Health experts say it ...

Also known as whooping cough, pertussis is a highly contagious respiratory disease that causes uncontrollable, violent coughs ...

The state health department said nearly 40 percent of this year's cases have been reported in Northeast Mississippi.

The grief of a mother whose child died of whooping cough drives her to urge parents to get their kids vaccinated. Such ...

The Galveston County Health District confirmed 60 cases of pertussis by the end of June — a significant increase from the 35 ...

The Mississippi State Department of Health issued an alert Wednesday that cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, are climbing ...

Rates of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, are continuing to rise, according to public health midwife Joanna Melia.

Whooping cough cases jumped from 110 in 2023 to 2,000 in 2024. Experts urged parents at a roundtable Wednesday to keep their ...