Nunavut’s health department has declared an end to tuberculosis outbreaks in Pangnirtung and Pond Inlet. Arviat and Naujaat ...

I was literally nauseated by Kennedy’s remarks” about Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, writes former CDC Director Tom Frieden.

It was 1959 and Duguay, of Clearwater, Florida, had polio. It mostly preyed on children and was one of the most feared ...

These illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth birthday. Over the ...

A couple of months ago people were predicting a vaccine for Covid-19 by April. Clearly that was never going to happen - and here's why ...

UNION, W.Va. (WVVA) - A case of whooping cough (pertussis) has prompted an investigation by the Monroe County Health Department. The department posted that a case of pertussis was confirmed and ...

Live-attenuated Pertussis Vaccine Live-attenuated pertussis vaccines have a number of advantages over the current parenterally administered inactivated vaccines. First, nasal administration is ...

Whooping cough, due to Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis, is an important cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. Despite widespread pertussis immunization in childhood, there ...

Two unvaccinated babies have died from pertussis, better known as whooping cough, in Kentucky in the last six months, the Kentucky Department for Public Health announced Friday. These two deaths in ...

There have been more than 10,000 whooping cough cases in the United States so far this year, an unusually high number even by prepandemic standards, said Dr. Kathryn Edwards, a vaccine expert at ...