Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a preventable disease, yet it still kills more than 150,000 children under five every year - most of them in low- and middle-income countries.

Whooping cough cases nearly doubled in New Mexico in 2024, and accounts for 60 of the total cases nationwide, as of Oct. 26.

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With over 500 cases of pertussis recorded in Ireland so far this year, pregnant women are being urged to get vaccinated ...

or whooping cough, once a leading cause of child mortality, remains a significant threat, especially due to waning immunity, low booster uptake, and the high transmissibility of the pathogen ...

Whooping cough cases nearly doubled in New Mexico ... "When everybody was taking precautions to prevent the spread of respiratory pathogens in general, many of the other respiratory diseases ...

The CDC said several factors are probably contributing to a post-pandemic rise in pertussis activity. Aside from waning ...

Meanwhile, COVID activity remained low amid a shift in variant proportions and RSV levels rose in 3 US regions.