Whoopingcough might sound like a disease from another era. But the illness, also called pertussis, is alive and well in the U.S. Known as a childhood illness, whooping cough is actually most common in ...

For the second year in a row, the US has surpassed 25,000 whooping cough cases — another sign of the risks of falling vaccination levels.

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. More than 3,500 cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, cases have been ...