Cassidy asks Kennedy to promote vaccines targeting whooping cough after major outbreak

health • 9/12/2025

BATON ROUGE — Sen. Bill Cassidy said Friday that Louisiana is undergoing its worst whooping cough outbreak since 1990 and called on the nation's vaccine-leery health secretary to promote vaccinations.

BATON ROUGE — Sen. Bill Cassidy said Friday that Louisiana is undergoing its worst whooping cough outbreak since 1990 and called on the nation's vaccine-leery health secretary to promote vaccinations. “In my state of Louisiana, we are experiencing th... [1023 chars]