Whooping-Cough Deaths in Honduras More Than Double to 17

Published on Honduras Daily · Jul 30, 2026 · Originally reported July 27, 2026 by HCH

Honduras recorded 17 whooping-cough deaths through July 2026, more than double the eight reported in all of 2025, with infants and young children hardest hit by the highly contagious bacterial infection.

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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