How to Use whooping cough in a Sentence

whooping cough

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  • Phase one - For a week or two, whooping cough presents as a cold.
    — Emilee Coblentz, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2024
  • That has led to resurgences of diseases such as whooping cough in Maine.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2020
  • In adults and kids, whooping cough can look very much like a cold, prompting a runny nose and cough.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Even after the whooping cough phase is over, the infection isn’t done.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The same goes for the whooping cough vaccine, which should be administered early in the third trimester.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The department said the symptoms of whooping cough start as cold-like, with a runny nose, mild cough and sneezing.
    — Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2024
  • The first case of a student contracting whooping cough was announced to parents through a Nov. 20 letter from the school.
    — Steve Schering, chicagotribune.com, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Most whooping cough symptoms can be managed at home, according to the CDC.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 31 May 2024
  • Slaoui had four siblings, one of whom died at 6 months old from whooping cough, which could have been prevented with a vaccine.
    — USA Today, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The effectiveness of the whooping cough vaccine varies.
    — Korin Miller, Verywell Health, 4 Oct. 2024
  • That was the case when a whooping cough, or pertussis, vaccine was introduced in the early 1950s.
    — Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Vaccines against flu and whooping cough also provide protection for the first few months of a baby's life.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Some still have not caught up on shots for diseases like polio, measles, whooping cough and diphtheria, all of which can be dangerous.
    — Dallas News, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Through their innovations, childhood deaths from whooping cough plummeted in the United States and then the world.
    — Richard Conniff, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2022
  • The first case of a student contracting whooping cough was announced to parents through a Nov. 20 letter from the school, while the second student case was announced Nov. 26.
    — Steve Schering, chicagotribune.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Years later, while Ernest was on trial, Anna died at the age of 4 after contracting whooping cough.
    — Megan McCluskey, TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
  • And for decades in the U.S., childhood immunizations for diseases like measles, whooping cough, polio and tetanus have been required for kids to attend school.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 11 Sep. 2021
  • My grandmother lost twin girls to whooping cough and would have given up most everything in her world for a vaccine, which came years later.
    — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Past research has already revealed that the weaker vaccine is driving whooping cough outbreaks and epidemics in the past decade.
    — Tara Haelle, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2013
  • No, not the coronavirus vaccine, but routine vaccines like polio, measles, tetanus and whooping cough.
    — cleveland, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The best prevention for whooping cough is to get vaccinated.
    — Dmitry Martirosov, The Courier-Journal, 24 May 2024
  • In 16 states, rates for kids entering kindergarten were at least 95% for measles shots and for the combination diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough shot.
    — Lindsey Tanner, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Novavax is based on a 30-year-old technology used to make vaccines for flu, hepatitis B and whooping cough.
    — Gale Holland, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2022
  • In some ways, whooping cough is an ideal infection to test in human challenge models.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Cases of measles fell 97% in the year through July compared with the year-earlier period, while both whooping cough and scarlet fever declined 62%.
    — Fortune, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Globally, the number of people dying each year from whooping cough was in the hundreds of thousands throughout the last century.
    — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
  • That’s because of a resurgence of whooping cough about 10 years ago in the U.S., and health officials discovered that the transmission was occurring from adults to children.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2022
  • In 16 states, rates for kids entering kindergarten were at least 95 percent for measles shots and for the combination diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough shot.
    — NBC News, 21 Apr. 2022
  • After all, most pregnant women receive a whooping cough vaccine in the third trimester of pregnancy, and many get the seasonal flu vaccine, too.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Cases of pertussis, more commonly known as whooping cough, will likely rise, too.
    — Lisa Jarvis, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024

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