The recommendation is five standard doses before a child starts kindergarten. Then, a booster between ages 11 and 12.

The Texas Department of State Health Services reports 3,500 cases through October of this year, around four times more than ...

Whooping cough cases in Fayette County have risen to 11 cases, according to the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department.

More than 3,500 cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, cases have been reported in Texas so far this year, already reaching a ...

The Hopkins County Health Department is urging parents to vaccinate their children after eight cases of whooping cough have ...

The Lexington-Fayette County Health Department announced five cases of whooping cough have occured in four Fayette County ...

Children suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is a moral failure. Access to vaccines is a human ...

Ten Austin schools have had cases of whooping cough. Pertussis can be vaccinated against, but is especially dangerous for ...

What do we all need to know about whooping cough (pertussis)? WebMD asked epidemiologist Tom Clark, MD, MPH, of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. What is whooping ...

Whooping cough cases in Texas have reached a number that has not been seen in the state in more than a decade, and medical ...