Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kate and Greg Moor weren’t thinking “whooping cough” when their son, 13-year-old Joe, started having coughing fits in early March.

As the measles epidemic is growing, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is also warning about another potentially dangerous childhood disease that was almost eliminated in the mid-’90s: ...

Oak Hills High School reported Wednesday a student has been diagnosed with pertussis, also known as whooping cough, according to a news release. To prevent the spread of the infection, the West Side ...

Whooping cough, medically known as pertussis, is a highly contagious bacterial infection that affects the airways. It gets ...

Being sick is never fun. But having chest congestion that makes it hard to breathe is especially unpleasant. Luckily, there are some things you can do to clear mucus from your chest and breathe a ...