Whooping cough is a highly infectious bacterial disease involving the lungs and airways. Infants under six months, unimmunised or partially immunised, face the highest risk of severe disease outcomes.

The number of whooping cough cases recorded in the State since the start of the year is 3000 per cent higher than the total detected in all of last year, according to figures from the infectious ...

Parents and pregnant women are being issued a stark warning after a baby died from the Victorian disease whooping cough in the UK. The baby died between January and June this year, according to the UK ...

There has been a "steady increase" in the number of whooping cough cases in Ireland so far this year, the Health Service Executive (HSE) has said. Figures show there were 79 cases of the disease ...

A baby whose mother was not vaccinated against whooping cough while pregnant has died after contracting the infection, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said. The death, which occurred between ...

A doctor has spoken of seeing babies “struggling for breath “ after catching the whooping cough as cases of the life threatening infection are to set to increase over the spring and summer. A ...

The Irish College of GPs has called for parents and young children to get vaccinated after the number of whooping cough cases "dramatically increased" this year. The representative group said there ...

Pregnant women are being urged to get the whooping cough vaccine as case numbers for this year look set to match last year’s record tally. There were over 539 cases last year, with 25% needing ...

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A baby whose mother was not vaccinated against whooping cough died of the disease this year, public health data shows. The infant, who is believed to have been under the age of one, died between March ...

A baby has become the first person to die after contracting whooping cough in England this year amid rapidly plummeting vaccination rates. The child, whose mother was not vaccinated against the ...