If you’ve heard the telltale cough and seen an infant gasp for breath, it’s easy to understand why a pertussis outbreak strikes fear in a parent’s heart.
Infants typically receive the vaccine in a three-dose series of DTap shots between two and six months of age, then two more boosters by age 6. Adolescents and adults should get a Tdap booster every 10 ...
The C-D-C says whooping cough cases are the highest they've seen in a decade in the U-S. And we're not immune to the problem ...
The North Idaho health provider says it has seen a record number of Pertussis cases and urges people to get vaccinated to ...
But that’s not always how serious illness plays out. Children who need to be on ventilators, have tracheostomies or ...
That’s why the recent surge in cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, should serve as a warning that we need to do more to ...
The CDC said that cases of whooping cause increased across the United States, which indicated a return to more typical ...
SACRAMENTO — California is experiencing an increase in cases of whooping cough (also known as pertussis), a highly contagious ...