How to Use whooping cough in a Sentence

whooping cough

noun
  • Two children have died in my state from whooping cough.
    — Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Phase one - For a week or two, whooping cough presents as a cold.
    — Emilee Coblentz, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2024
  • More than a third of whooping cough cases have been in older kids.
    — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Giving a donkey some bread will treat whooping cough.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2025
  • In rare cases, babies can die of whooping cough.
    — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 22 Dec. 2025
  • What’s behind the spike in whooping cough cases?
    — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • Even after the whooping cough phase is over, the infection isn’t done.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2024
  • For most healthy adults, the whooping cough is an annoying illness.
    — Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Feleena had pertussis, or whooping cough.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Antibiotics are the main treatment for whooping cough.
    — Asuka Koda, CNN Money, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Vaccine preventable diseases like measles and whooping cough are rising again, too.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
  • About one in three babies with whooping cough are hospitalized.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The same goes for the whooping cough vaccine, which should be administered early in the third trimester.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Early symptoms of whooping cough can resemble those of a common cold.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2025
  • For teens and adults, whooping cough can lead to complications such as pneumonia.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In some ways, whooping cough is an ideal infection to test in human challenge models.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Diseases such as measles, polio and whooping cough once claimed thousands of American lives each year.
    — A.j. Russo, Baltimore Sun, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Cases of tetanus, whooping cough, and hepatitis A have also risen in recent years.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • That same gap persist with other vaccine-preventable diseases, too, like whooping cough and polio.
    — Asuka Koda, CNN Money, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Other vaccine-preventable diseases like whooping cough and chicken pox will also surge.
    — Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 28 Jan. 2026
  • That means once vaccination rates fall, whooping cough spreads easily.
    — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 22 Dec. 2025
  • No, not the coronavirus vaccine, but routine vaccines like polio, measles, tetanus and whooping cough.
    — cleveland, 24 Aug. 2021
  • There is no more intimate way to become a member of the literati than by catching your favorite writer’s whooping cough.
    — Blythe Roberson, New Yorker, 4 June 2026

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