How to Use whooping cough in a Sentence

whooping cough

noun

• 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
• 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
• All 50 states and D.C. require some vaccines — such as for chickenpox, whooping cough and polio — for children to enter public school.
  — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2021
• The technique has been used for years in vaccines against hepatitis B, pertussis (whooping cough) and other diseases.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 1 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024