Whooping Cough Outbreak 2024 Uk Government. Doug jenkinson was a midlands gp for 37 years, during which time he made a special study of whooping cough and documented over 700. According to data published by the uk health security agency (ukhsa), cases continue to rise, with 1,319 confirmed in march.

Prof andrew preston, milner centre for evolution, university of bath, said: Driven in part by the overuse and misuse of antibiotics in medicine and agriculture, the exponential rise in.