Whooping cough cases are on the rise in the United States, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For the week ending April 12, at least 8,064 whooping cough cases have ...

When there's an outbreak of a vaccine-preventable disease, state health officials typically take certain steps to alert residents and issue public updates about the growing threat. That's standard ...

Though public schools in Fayette County won’t start back until Aug. 16, the health department reports whooping cough is already spreading in Lexington. Kevin Hall, spokesman for the Lexington-Fayette ...