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Whooping cough cases in Washington state increased sharply, with 2,261 cases in 2024 compared to 87 in 2023, coinciding with a decline in vaccination rates among young children from 73% in 2019 to ...

Washington state reported 27 times as many whooping cough cases last year as the year before, according to new data that serves as a reminder of the disease’s continued surge here and nationwide.

This year alone, we have had pediatric deaths from measles and whooping cough, not to mention over 200 deaths from influenza. Those numbers will only escalate in the future.

Washington’s whooping cough cases The DOH Annual Pertussis Update shows confirmed and probable whooping cough cases reached 2,261 in 2024, a 25-fold increase from 87 cases recorded in 2023.