Guam now has one case of the highly contagious whooping cough called Bordetella pertussis or pertussis, the Department of Public Health and Social Services said on Thursday. Public Health said it ...

The FDA has approved use of GlaxoSmithKline’s Boostrix (Tdap) vaccine for use during the third trimester of pregnancy, for prevention of pertussis (whooping cough) in infants younger than two months ...

When there's an outbreak of a vaccine-preventable disease, state health officials typically take certain steps to alert residents and issue public updates about the growing threat. That's standard ...

There are no two ways about it – whooping cough is everywhere at the moment. Last year almost 35,000 cases of the disease were reported across Australia, the highest number since records began in 1991 ...

When four states between 2015 and 2021 stopped allowing parents to opt their children out of receiving routine vaccines without a medical reason, vaccination rates among kindergartners increased ...