TOPEKA (KSNT) – Kansas health officials are monitoring a spike in whooping cough cases around the state this year, marking one of the biggest increases in case numbers in nearly a decade. 27 News ...

DEAR ERIC: I am in my 70s, and for the last couple of decades I have had occasional coughing fits that are triggered by talking too long and/or too loudly. When these fits happen, I literally can’t ...

Kate and Greg Moor weren’t thinking “whooping cough” when their son, 13-year-old Joe, started having coughing fits in early March. Joe probably just had a late winter virus, the Bloomfield Hills, ...

Dear Eric: I am in my 70s, and for the last couple of decades I have had occasional coughing fits that are triggered by talking too long and/or too loudly. When these fits happen, I literally can’t ...

Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly contagious bacterial infection that primarily affects the respiratory system. The disease is most notable for its intense coughing fits, which often end with ...

Dear Eric: I am in my 70s, and for the last couple of decades I have had occasional coughing fits that are triggered by talking too long and/or too loudly. When these fits happen, I literally can’t ...

Reports of a mysterious virus that’s causing high fevers and bloody coughing are circulating on Russian social media channels, with one person saying, “I got over Covid much easier." "It's a nightmare ...

Whooping cough cases have jumped sharply year over year but remain in line with pre-pandemic numbers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday. The CDC, which tracks whooping ...

I am in my 70s, and for the last couple of decades I have had occasional coughing fits that are triggered by talking too long and/or too loudly. When these fits happen, I literally can’t talk or stop ...

Fairfax County, Virginia, is seeing a spike in whooping cough days before students are set to go back to school. Pertussis illness, known as whooping cough, is caused by a bacteria that spreads from ...