Whooping Cough or Pertussis

Data are for the U.S.

Morbidity

  • Reported number of new whooping cough cases: 32,971 (2014)

Source: Health, United States, 2016, table 33[PDF – 9.8 MB]

Vaccination

  • Percent of children aged 19-35 months with 4 or more doses of DTP/DT/DTaP vaccination: 84.6% (2015)
  • Percent of adolescents aged 13-17 years with 1 dose or more of Tdap vaccination: 86.4% (2015)

Source: Health, United States, 2016, tables 66, 67[PDF – 9.8 MB]

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