The bacterial infection pertussis has sparked an uptick in cases nationwide and caused two deaths in Louisiana ...

There have been 6,600 pertussis cases reported in the US in 2025, almost four times the number at this point last year.

The best thing that people can do to prevent the spread of respiratory droplets, isolate the child who is coughing. The best way to prevent the fecal oral route of transmission is careful hand ...

Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory ... from work or school to avoid infecting others, and if your children are sick, do not send them to school, health department advises.

but to protect others who may be very susceptible to whooping cough, and that's particularly children and infants. Adults who are working with kids who are, particularly, in school settings and ...

The first is pertussis, known as whooping cough, on the rise in Michigan ... She also suggests limiting sick family members’ contact with your child. “Don’t kiss baby on the face ...

I heard [coughing sound] from Jolie, and I was like, ‘Oh, s---. Here we go.’ And then one hundred and four fevers later, all three kids were sick.” She then confirmed that the children had ...

And I was sick for almost three months ... when a pertussis vaccine was developed, about 9,000 U.S. children died of whooping cough every year. Nowadays, up to 20 babies die each year from ...