tdap adult booster :: Article Creator Whooping Cough Cases Surging Towards 70-year High In US President Donald Trump congratulates Robert F. Kennedy Jr., after he was sworn in as Health and Human Services Secretary in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in Washington. [AP Photo/Alex Brandon] Cases of whooping cough—or pertussis as it's more formally known—have been quietly but strongly surging to pre-pandemic levels and beyond. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Nationally Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (NNDSS) found there have been 8,845 cases of pertussis in the United States so far this year, and the number is rapidly expanding. According to a study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), when extrapolated out for the remainder of 2025, the total number of cases of whooping cough will very likely exceed the 74,715 cases seen in 1948, the year the pertussis vaccine was first intro...