Whatcom County health officials are managing a cluster of pertussis cases amid a general increase in the highly contagious respiratory aliment that can be extremely painful and sometimes proves fatal.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Erika Lautenbach, who guided Whatcom County through the COVID-19 pandemic and pivoted to address the fentanyl crisis, rising ...

Whooping Cough cases around the state, including Whatcom County, have reached an epidemic level. To help prevent the spread of this sometimes deadly--and preventable--illness, the Whatcom County ...

Whatcom County has confirmed its first case of measles for 2025, according to a June 20 news release from Whatcom County Health and Community Services (WCHCS). The risk to public safety is considered ...

Health inspectors cited 11 local eateries for issues ranging from unsafe food to dirty pots.

Whatcom County Executive Satpal Sidhu has chosen an epidemiologist and health officer from Maryland as the director of the Department of Health and Community Services, according to an emailed ...

Two people in a Whatcom County family have now tested positive for measles, and the county health department is reaching out to anyone who might have been exposed. One of the infected people was at ...

The Whatcom County Health Department announced Thursday that a die-off of approximately 25 wild birds in the Wiser Lake area tested positive for the avian influenza virus. Avian influenza, also known ...

Erika Lautenbach, who guided Whatcom County through the COVID-19 pandemic and pivoted to address the fentanyl crisis, rising homelessness and direct funds for new child-care programs, has left her ...