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SAN DIEGO — San Diego health officials are warning about a sharp rise in whooping cough and walking pneumonia cases. Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a highly contagious respiratory ...

Doctors and health officials are warning San Diego residents about rising cases of whooping cough and walking pneumonia, especially among young children.

A surge in whooping cough cases in Oregon has prompted state and local health officials to urge residents to get vaccinated.

Spokane kids are getting sick from whooping cough, and health officials warn the outbreak will likely last into the spring. As of Friday, 140 cases of whooping cough, also called pertussis, have been ...

According to a press release from Whitman County Public Health (WCPH), the department is continuing its investigation into the outbreak. There have been 63 reported cases of pertussis, with an ...

“As it gets worse, the cough can become severe and last for weeks or even months. The coughing can make it hard to breathe.

Although the disease may produce only a mild, persistent cough in adults or adolescents, young children exposed to the ...

Spokane County is in the midst of an outbreak of whooping cough, with nearly twice the infections locally so far than the ...

SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. – Spokane County is currently facing an outbreak of whooping cough. The Spokane Regional Health ...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- The Spokane Regional Health District is confirming an outbreak of pertussis in Spokane County. RELATED: ...

Prior to a rise that started in the late 1980s and culminated in the 2012 spike, case counts had routinely been in the low triple digits since a steep decline over the 1940s and 1950s. As a result, if ...