PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Whooping cough is causing concern in Washington state, with public health officials reporting over 1,000 cases statewide so far in 2025. In Clark County, the numbers are ...

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Health officials in Washington state are warning about a “dramatic surge” in whooping cough cases seen last year amid a decrease in vaccination rates.

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...

WASHINGTON — Whooping cough cases are rising, and doctors are bracing for yet another tough year. There have been 8,485 cases reported in 2025, according to preliminary data from the U.S ...

Washington state reported 25 times as many whooping cough cases last year as the year before, according to new data that serve as a reminder of the disease's continued surge here and nationwide.

The U.S. has tallied 8,077 cases of whooping cough in 2025, ... while the CDC confirmed this year that a 5-year-old in Washington state died of the disease in November — the state’s first ...

In the past six months, two babies in Louisiana and a 5-year-old in Washington state have died from whooping cough. 5 Rates of whooping cough, or pertussis, soared last year, which experts said ...

The state has recorded 516 cases thus far, mostly among children aged 5 to 17, and saw a total of 2,081 cases in 2024. Bagdasarian said vaccination rates vary from county to county.