Whooping Cough Deaths in Honduras More Than Double to 17

Published on Honduras Daily · Jul 26, 2026 · Originally reported July 26, 2026 by HCH

Honduras has recorded 17 deaths from whooping cough so far in 2026, more than double the eight in all of 2025, with infants and young children hit hardest by the outbreak, health authorities say.

An auto-translated English version isn’t available for HCH, so this opens the original in Spanish. Honduras Daily curates and summarizes; the reporting is theirs.

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