New back-to-school warning as whooping cough cases rise
NBC Newsยท2025-08-03 23:55
Cases of whooping cough spreading across the US, especially the Carolinas. And it's coming at a concerning time as millions of kids head back to classrooms. It can be a very severe disease.It's technically called pertasus and it's a bacterial infection causing severe coughing. My hospital, we had no cases in 2023, 13 in 2024, and already this year, and we're only halfway through the year, we've had 27. More than six times as many whooping cough cases were reported last year compared to 2023 according to the ...