Michigan whooping cough cases on rise

Washington is not alone in its sharp rise of the highly contagious bacterial infection this year. It's been an unusually bad year for whooping cough in the United States, which has counted more than ...
A highly contagious respiratory illness is on the rise in the United States this year. Cases of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, have surged to pre-pandemic levels in 2024, according ...
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 ...
Officials with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services are urging people to stay up to date with the pertussis ...
More than five times as many pertussis cases had been reported as of mid-October compared with the same time last year, according to provisional numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and ...