Examples of pertussis in a Sentence
Bloomberg News, TIME, 11 Apr. 2024
The infected droplets contain the Bordetella pertussis bacteria, which can cause symptoms of pertussis in five to 21 days.
—Keri Brenner, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
For this reason, health officials suggest pregnant women get a pertussis vaccine in their third trimester.
—Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 28 Mar. 2024
This is the first year that four vaccines are being recommended during pregnancy, to protect against the flu, Covid, pertussis (also called whooping cough) and the respiratory virus RSV.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2023
At least 100 reports of the highly contagious respiratory bacterial infection, also known as pertussis, have been received in the area since November 28, health officials told ABC News.
—Emilee Coblentz, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2024
In 2023, there were 108 cases of pertussis reported or suspected in Suffolk County with 100 reported since Nov. 28, a spokesperson for the Suffolk County Department of Health Services told ABC News on Tuesday.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2024
DTaP vaccine The four-dose diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTaP) vaccine series protects your baby from three life-threatening, toxin-releasing bacterial diseases: diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis.
—Taryn Chapman, Parents, 28 Sep. 2023
After California’s 2010 outbreak of whooping cough (pertussis) — 9,120 cases, the most since 1947, the majority among unvaccinated children — the Legislature eliminated almost all non-medical exemptions for childhood immunization.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
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Word History
New Latin, from Latin per- thoroughly + tussis cough
circa 1772, in the meaning defined above
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“Pertussis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pertussis. Accessed 17 Apr. 2024.
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