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Health officials say 2012 was the nation's worst year for whooping cough in nearly six decades....

Expert government advisers want every pregnant woman to get a whooping cough shot.

Health officials are grappling with the resurgence of once-forgotten infectious diseases, including a possible whooping cough epidemic.

Washington state's worst outbreak of whooping cough in decades has prompted health officials to declare an epidemic, seek help from federal experts ...

The whooping cough vaccine given to babies and toddlers loses much of its effectiveness after just three years - a lot faster than doctors believed - and that could help explain a recent series of outbreaks in the U.S. among children who were fully vaccinated, a study suggests....

Federal health officials say more than 21,000 people got whooping cough last year, many of them children and teens. That's the highest number ...

Health officials are urging adults to get vaccinated against pertussis and flu as a way protect babies and other vulnerable patients.

A ninth baby has died in California from whooping cough, health officials said Thursday.

Phil Plait comments on a recent California Department of Public Health statement that whooping cough "is now officially an epidemic in California." Phil is clear in his criticisms of anti-vax celebrities and other opponents of sound medical science.