Whooping cough - also known as pertussis - is a potentially fatal bacterial infection that can be most deadly in unvaccinated ...
More babies will die from whooping cough unless vaccination rates go up to slow the spread of the infection, a leading expert ...
FIVE British babies have died from whooping cough this year with cases already three times higher than 2023's total. Eight out of 10 deaths are in babies born to unvaccinated mums but uptake of ...
It comes as more than 2,700 whooping cough cases were reported across England so far in 2024 – over three times the amount ...
As whooping cough cases are surging globally, some may wonder if it’s necessary to get a booster. Cases of the childhood respiratory disease also known as pertussis are surging internationally ...
There is a worrying rise in whooping cough, officials warn, external, with 553 cases in England recorded in January alone and high numbers in Wales. They fear it could be a bumper year for the ...
THE HEARTBROKEN parents of a baby girl who died of whooping cough shared her heartbreaking final moments. Little Evie-Grace was just 15 days old when she passed away from the contagious bacterial ...
Whooping cough might sound like a Victorian disease, but the bacterial infection has made a dramatic comeback in recent months across Europe, Asia, and America. The ‘100-day cough’ – known ...
WHOOPING cough is on the rise again after March saw the highest rate of the potentially ‘dangerous’ disease for ten years, Public Health Wales warned. Statistics revealed there were more cases ...