A devastating respiratory infection once thought to be primarily a childhood concern is making an alarming comeback among adults, catching the medical community and patients completely off guard.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A cough score was used to determine severity and featured questions from three validated assessments. Poorer ...

The management of chronic cough is described in evidence-based guidelines that appear to be effective for diagnosing and treating the many underlying causes of chronic cough. However, the management ...

Are you an adult who is suffering from a long-standing cough that does not produce phlegm and stops as soon as you fall asleep? Has your cough failed to improve despite being treated with different ...

(WXYZ) — Whooping cough cases are on the rise. Henry Ford Health’s lab went from zero cases in July to 33 in September. Nationally, numbers have soared with ...

Whoopingcough might sound like a disease from another era. But the illness, also called pertussis, is alive and well in the U.S. Known as a childhood illness, whooping cough is actually most common in ...

Bordetella Pertussis bacteria In adult patients, pooled estimates of sensitivity and specificity were generated for 4 clinical features: paroxysmal cough, posttussive vomiting, inspiratory whoop, and ...

Dr. William John Cochran was diagnosed with whooping cough in April 2009. At right, Lucy Ceresi, a nurse at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, demonstrates on Therese Pramick, left, a pertussis ...

Whooping cough, a condition once thought to be brought under control in the world today, is staging a nasty and unexpected resurgence. According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

The Highland County Health Department has confirmed four cases of pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, within the community since February 2026. Of the confirmed cases, three individuals were ...

Update: On Friday, July 18, officials in Haywood County, North Carolina, confirmed an additional case of whooping cough, this time in an adult. This is the seventh case. Health officials say all other ...