A measles outbreak has been keeping American health care professionals on their toes, but experts say we should also be wary of another preventable disease: whooping cough. This illness typically ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: I have a friend who has had an extremely bad cough, especially when she gets a cold. (It sounds like she is coughing up a lung.) She is a breast cancer survivor and has had this cough ...
Just when you thought you had your family’s health routines under control—you sent in the school physicals, you stocked up on kids’ vitamins—there’s a new, er, old concern on the horizon. Whooping ...
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Whooping cough, also known as pertussis or the 100-day cough is described as a highly contagious respiratory illness and the number of cases is on the rise. According to the ...
Erie County saw its largest pertussis outbreak since at least 2012 when 15 people tested positive in September for the vaccine-preventable bacterial illness commonly known as whooping cough. By ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Whooping cough cases are on the rise across the country, and are also high here in Michigan. Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a bacterial infection of the upper respiratory ...
GENESEE COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) - Cases of Pertussis are rising around the country, and here at home in Genesee County. Genesee County Health Department warns of rise in whooping cough The Genesee County ...
The emergence of a new, mutated flu strain, H3N2 subclade K, has caused several outbreaks abroad, with some cases detected in the US. Here are the symptoms to watch out for: Fever Similar to regular ...