Pennsylvania, one of the states hit hardest by the illness last year, has recorded 207 whooping cough cases in 2025.

Preliminary data from the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention says the U.S. has seen 8,485 cases of whooping cough ...

van Hemert, van Wezel and Cohen 1 described a method of extracting the protective antigen from Bordetella pertussis by treating a suspension of the organisms with Na-deoxycholate and then with ...

Whooping cough cases are rising sharply in the U.S., with over 8,000 cases reported in 2025- double last year’s count driven ...

Whooping cough, also known as pertussis ... unable to prevent nasal bacterial colonization and transmission. This results from their inability to induce robust mucosal immunity in the upper ...

According to reports by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS), pertussis (whooping cough) cases in 2024 increased by nearly 2,000%. As of Friday, 497 cases have been confirmed ...

Whooping cough, caused by the Bordetella pertussis bacteria, is transmitted through droplets from sneezing and coughing. While the initial symptoms resemble a common cold, they develop into severe ...

New research from The University of Texas at Austin could aid in improving whooping cough vaccines to once again push this disease toward eradication by targeting two key weaknesses in the infection.

Whooping cough, or pertussis, was once a leading cause of death for children in the U.S. and worldwide before the introduction of vaccines in the 1940s. In the decades since, the bacterial disease ...