Whooping Cough or Pertussis

• Reported number of new whooping cough cases: 15,609 (2018)

Source: Health, United States, 2019, table 10 pdf icon[PDF – 9.8 MB]

• Percent of children vaccinated by age 24 months with 4 or more doses of DTP/DT/DTaP vaccination: 80.7% (2015)
• Percent of adolescents aged 13-17 years with 1 dose or more of Tdap vaccination: 88.9% (2018)

Source: Health, United States, 2019, table 31 pdf icon[PDF 9.8 MB] and table 32 pdf icon[PDF 9.8 MB]

• National Immunization Survey
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Pertussis (Whooping Cough) Surveillance and Reporting
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Pertussis Vaccination