Pertussis, or whoopingcough, is on the rise as we head into the new school year. That's compared to the last few years, when incidence was low compared to the years before the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Whoopingcough, also known as pertussis, is an illness caused by bacteria spread from person to person through the air. “It’s spread through respiratory droplets, explained Dr. Mona Gahunia ...
Before the availability of the pertussis vaccine in the 1940s, there were more than 200,000 cases of pertussis annually in the U.S. Rates of whoopingcough and other infectious illnesses ...