Because newborns do not have a fully developed immune system, people spending time around them including parents, siblings, ...

A Heywood Hospital doctor advises greater Gardner residents on how to protect themselves against a quademic of respiratory ...

A baby has died from whooping cough two months into an epidemic in New Zealand. Health officials declared an epidemic late ...

Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly contagious respiratory infection caused by bacteria called Bordetella pertussis.

Whooping cough cases have surged to their highest levels since 2014, with health experts urging vaccinations and preventative ...

Māori are disproportionately affected by the disease, with "shocking immunisation rates" leading to over-representation in ...

This whooping cough epidemic might be the biggest, ugliest and most challenging in New Zealand's history. Photo / 123RF Dr ...

A baby has died from whooping cough during the Christmas period, marking the first fatality since the national epidemic was ...

Whooping cough is annoying, but tolerable, for most adults. But for infants, the disease can be serious, even deadly.

That’s why the recent surge in cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, should serve as a warning that we need to do more to ...

If you’ve heard the telltale cough and seen an infant gasp for breath, it’s easy to understand why a pertussis outbreak ...