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
• The last infant to die from whooping cough in L.A. County was in 2014.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 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
• Perhaps most striking were the states that had the fewest cases of whooping cough last year.
  — Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
• 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
• The infectious disease, also known as whooping cough, is on the rise in the U.S.
  — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
• More than a third of whooping cough cases have been in older kids.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2025
• 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
• For most healthy adults, the whooping cough is an annoying illness.
  — Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Jan. 2025
• 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 of the whooping cough cases in the Boise School District have been in its elementary and high schools, Hollar said.
  — Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 7 Jan. 2025
• Most whooping cough symptoms can be managed at home, according to the CDC.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 31 May 2024
• Most whooping cough symptoms can be managed at home, according to the CDC.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 24 Apr. 2025
• 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
• The bacteria that causes whooping cough spreads person-to-person through the air, specifically through coughs and sneezes, the CDC says.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 21 May 2025
• 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
• Only 81% of young children received the shots that protect against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough.
  — Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
• 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
• For teens and adults, whooping cough can lead to complications such as pneumonia.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024
• At the same time, rates of diseases that can be protected against with vaccines, such as measles and whooping cough, are rising across the country.
  — Arkansas Online, 9 Feb. 2026
• At the same time, rates of diseases that can be protected against with vaccines, such as measles and whooping cough, are rising across the country.
  — Matt Brown, Denver Post, 8 Feb. 2026
• Other vaccine-preventable diseases like whooping cough and chicken pox will also surge.
  — Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 28 Jan. 2026
• At the same time, rates of diseases that can be protected against with vaccines, such as measles and whooping cough, are rising across the country.
  — Dan Raby, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026