Oregon health officials are alarmed over the state's rising pertussis case count, which is expected to beat the state's ...

Oregon is expected to surpass its record of 910 pertussis cases by the end of 2024, prompting state health officials to ...

Nearly half of this year's cases were among people who had never received a dose of whooping cough vaccines, Oregon officials ...

The Oregon Health Authority said that as of Wednesday, the state has seen a total of 827 cases in 23 counties this year. At ...

Also known as pertussis, the disease poses a particular threat to young babies, and five infants have died from it since 2003 ...

The number of pertussis, or whooping cough, cases in Oregon are on track to hit an all-time high by the end of the year, state officials said Thursday. The spike comes as vaccinations have dipped, ...

Pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, is a highly contagious but preventable respiratory disease that most commonly ...

Whooping cough, due to Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis, is an important cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. Despite widespread pertussis immunization in childhood ...

On Nov. 2, the CDC reported a more than five-fold increase in cases of pertussis in 2024, the virus that causes whooping cough, compared to the same week the previous year. “Reports of pertussis ...

LANSING The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) is calling attention to an increase in cases of pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, and urging individuals to get up to ...