Whooping cough cases nearly tripled in Colorado in 2024: What to know

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Whooping cough cases nearly tripled in Colorado in 2024: What to know

DENVER (KDVR) -- Whooping cough cases are rising across the country and in Colorado, with a nearly 270% increase in Colorado between 2023 and 2024, according to provisional Centers for Disease Control data. Nationally, cases of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, increased from just over 7,000 cases in 2023 to nearly 35,500 cases in 2024, according to the CDC's provisional 2024 report. The 2023 provisional report shows Colorado had 244 case…

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Health department reports increase in flu, whooping cough - Springfield Daily Citizen

Over the last three weeks, Greene County flu cases have nearly doubled, and there were 21 cases of pertussis in the first 36 days of 2025. The post Health department reports increase in flu, whooping cough appeared first on Springfield Daily Citizen.

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PRAGUE - Since the beginning of this year, doctors have reported 1167 new cases of whooping cough to the State Institute of Health (SZÚ). That's almost 2.5 times as much as in all of 2023 and more than three times as much as last January. This follows from the data provided by the institute today to ČTK. This continues the increase from last year, when more than 37,000 people fell ill. The disease especially threatens the smallest children under…