The vaccine for whooping cough doesn’t work as well as it used to, and new research suggests it’s largely because the bacteria behind the disease has mutated. Researchers at the Centers for ...

The modern vaccine for whooping cough becomes less effective as children age, a new study shows, highlighting the need for new vaccines to protect children from the highly contagious disease.

Newer vaccines used to protect against whooping cough, or pertussis, are not as effective as vaccines that were given to stave off the disease prior to the 1990's, according to a new study.

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

Low-grade fever (less than 100.4°F) Mild, occasional cough; Babies may struggle to breathe or have life-threatening pauses in breathing. The apnea may cause the babies to turn blue.

Low-grade fever (less than 100.4℉) Mild, occasional cough One to two weeks after the first symptoms start, people may develop paroxysms, or coughing fits, that usually last one to six weeks but ...

Your cough reflex is therefore less likely to be triggered, and over time the hypersensitivity should settle. Sipping water or having some honey in your tea might help.

Whooping cough gets its name from its most famous symptom – a "whoop" sound you might make when you gasp for air at the end of a coughing fit. But it doesn't happen in all adults, so it's ...

So far in 2024 there have been more than 17,000 cases of whooping cough (pertussis) across Australia. This is well above our usual national average. It's already six times more cases than we saw ...

The modern vaccine for whooping cough becomes less effective as children age, a new study shows, highlighting the need for new vaccines to protect children from the highly contagious disease.

The modern vaccine for whooping cough becomes less effective as children age, a new study shows, highlighting the need for new vaccines to protect children from the highly contagious disease.