How to Use whooping cough in a Sentence

whooping cough

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  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Heinrich said then local health officials would no longer be able to issue orders to contain measles, whooping cough or flu outbreaks in schools.
    — Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The living conditions were also poor and kids died from tuberculosis, whooping cough, measles, the flu and smallpox.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Oct. 2021
  • His team also has similar work ongoing about the history of whooping cough, measles and scarlet fever.
    — Ryan Prior, CNN, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Already, Henry Ford requires workers to get a flu shot every year and stay current with other vaccines, such as measles, mumps, rubella and whooping cough.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2021
  • Your parents’ nursing home can’t ask its caregivers if they are vaccinated against whooping cough.
    — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The two-dose vaccine is based on conventional technology used in vaccines for the flu, whooping cough and hepatitis B and will be available in the coming weeks.
    — Svetlana Shkolnikova, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2022
  • For several years, infant vaccination rates fell, leading to a rise in cases of whooping cough.
    — Blake Essig, CNN, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Here’s a list of how Frisco ISD prevents other illnesses, such as influenza, headlice and whooping cough disease.
    — Brandi Addison, Dallas News, 26 July 2021

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