Whooping Cough Cases Uk 2024 Uk. The uk health security agency urged pregnant women to get vaccinated to protect their newborn babies as whooping cough cases rose to over 10,000 in the uk. In england, provisionally there were 10,493 laboratory confirmed cases of pertussis reported to the uk health security agency (ukhsa) between january and.
There is a worrying rise in whooping cough, officials warn, with 553 cases in england recorded in january alone and high numbers in wales. They fear it could be a bumper year for the bacterial.