Health experts are advising Bay Area residents to keep up with their vaccinations amid a steep rise in whooping cough cases. After a sharp drop in cases during the pandemic, the persistent, violent cough also known as pertussis is back.

Doctors with the SFDPH say last year there was only one whooping cough case reported to them and this year there have already been 97. Here is the combination of factors likely behind the surge.

The county of San Mateo has now had the first reported case of clade I mpox in the United States, according to the California Department of Public Health (CPDH). What is mpox? Mpox is an infectious disease that can cause a painful rash,

California has reported the first US case of mpox - formerly known as monkeypox - that is part of a new outbreak. The state's department of health, the CDPH, said the new case was from the Clade I strain - different from the Clade II strain that has been in circulation in the US since 2022.

Health officials said Saturday they have confirmed the first U.S. case of a new form of mpox that was first seen in eastern Congo.