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Whooping cough is not a mild disease. whooping cough, before the vaccination, could make you very, very sick. First of all, there was a chance you could die from it - small chance, not a big chance. You would be coughing and coughing. It wouldn't last for a few days, like a cold.
Anthony Fauci

Meaning of "whooping cough" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WHOOPING COUGH

whooping cough  [ˈhuːpɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WHOOPING COUGH

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Whooping cough is a noun.
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WHAT DOES WHOOPING COUGH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

whooping cough

Pertussis

Pertussis — commonly called whooping cough — is a highly contagious bacterial disease caused by Bordetella pertussis. In some countries, this disease is called the 100 days' cough or cough of 100 days. Symptoms are initially mild, and then develop into severe coughing fits, which produce the namesake high-pitched "whoop" sound in infected babies and children when they inhale air after coughing. The coughing stage lasts approximately six weeks before subsiding. Prevention by vaccination is of primary importance given the seriousness of the disease in children. Although treatment is of little direct benefit to the person infected, antibiotics are recommended because they shorten the duration of infectiousness. It is currently estimated that the disease annually affects 48.5 million people worldwide, resulting in nearly 295,000 deaths.

Definition of whooping cough in the English dictionary

The definition of whooping cough in the dictionary is an acute infectious disease characterized by coughing spasms that end with a shrill crowing sound on inspiration: caused by infection with the bacillus Bordetella pertussis Technical name: pertussis.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WHOOPING COUGH


beekeeping
ˈbiːˌkiːpɪŋ
chirping
ˈtʃɜːpɪŋ
creeping
ˈkriːpɪŋ
drooping
ˈdruːpɪŋ
grouping
ˈɡruːpɪŋ
housekeeping
ˈhaʊsˌkiːpɪŋ
keeping
ˈkiːpɪŋ
peacekeeping
ˈpiːsˌkiːpɪŋ
reaping
ˈriːpɪŋ
record-keeping
ˈrɛkɔːdˌkiːpɪŋ
regrouping
ˌriːˈɡruːpɪŋ
safekeeping
ˈseɪfˈkiːpɪŋ
sleeping
ˈsliːpɪŋ
stooping
ˈstuːpɪŋ
sweeping
ˈswiːpɪŋ
timekeeping
ˈtaɪmˌkiːpɪŋ
trooping
ˈtruːpɪŋ
undrooping
ʌnˈdruːpɪŋ
unstooping
ʌnˈstuːpɪŋ
weeping
ˈwiːpɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WHOOPING COUGH

whomping
whomso
whomsoever
whoonga
whoop
whoop it up
whoopee
whoopee cushion
whooper
whooper swan
whooping crane
whoopla
whoops
whoops-a-daisy
whoopsie
whoosh
whoosis
whop
whopped
whopper

WORDS THAT END LIKE WHOOPING COUGH

although
as though
borough
breakthrough
chin cough
chincough
click through
click-through
cough
dough
enough
go through
hacking cough
hough
rough
Scarborough
thorough
though
through
tough

Synonyms and antonyms of whooping cough in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «whooping cough» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WHOOPING COUGH

Find out the translation of whooping cough to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of whooping cough from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «whooping cough» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

百日咳
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tos ferina
570 millions of speakers

English

whooping cough
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

काली खांसी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

السعال الديكي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

коклюш
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

coqueluche
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হুপিং কাশি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

coqueluche
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Batuk kokol
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Keuchhusten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

百日咳
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

백일해
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

watuk ngekel
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ho như gà
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கக்குவான் இருமல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

डांग्या खोकला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Boğmaca boğmaca
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pertosse
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

krztusiec
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

коклюш
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tuse convulsivă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κοκκύτη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kinkhoes
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kikhosta
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kikhoste
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about whooping cough

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2 QUOTES WITH «WHOOPING COUGH»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word whooping cough.
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Ezekiel Emanuel
Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.
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Anthony Fauci
Whooping cough is not a mild disease. whooping cough, before the vaccination, could make you very, very sick. First of all, there was a chance you could die from it - small chance, not a big chance. You would be coughing and coughing. It wouldn't last for a few days, like a cold.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WHOOPING COUGH»

Discover the use of whooping cough in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to whooping cough and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Whooping Cough
Presents an introduction to whooping cough, describing its history, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment, and what can be done to prevent its spread.
Patrick G. Guilfoile, Hilary Babcock, 2010
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Whooping Cough - A Journey Towards Truth
This book further reveals the truth surrounding Whooping Cough (Pertussis) Vaccines.
Paul Day, 2008
3
Whooping Cough: New Insights for the Healthcare ...
ScholarlyBrief. Rockville, 37, 38 Rome, 51 Salisbury, 17, 18 San Rafael, 63, 64 School Nursing, 31 Silver Spring, 41, 42 South Carolina, 35 Stem Cell Research, 68 Streptococcus, 4 Switzerland, 51, 53 Sydney, 53, 54 Technology, 7, 8, 11, 16,  ...
‎2013
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Variola, vaccination, varicella, cholera, erysipelas, ...
Krrmnvs in variola, 96 Koch's method of examination of bacilli of cholera Asiatica, 377 LARYNGITIS and whooping-cough, 560 Larynx, erysipelas of, 466 Leprosy following vaccination, 262 Lobar pneumonia and whooping-cough, 562 Lumbar  ...
Hermann Immermann, Sir John William Moore, 1902
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The Treatment of whooping-cough
I believe this from several cases which have been reported, one of which was seen by myself, in which whooping-cough has been contracted in utero. Nevertheless, careful examinations of the blood, which have been especially conducted by ...
John Marie Keating, 1885
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Treatment of whooping cough ...
Rudolph Kraus. de Bordet-Gengou, quienes descubrieron un pequeño bacilo, inmovil, bipolar, y Gram negativo, en el esputo de los enfermos en su periodo catarral, durante la primera semana, habiendo logrado cultivarlo puro sobre medios ...
Rudolph Kraus, 1916
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Schaechter's Mechanisms of Microbial Disease
DiRita Bordetella pertussis: m Causes whooping cough, or pertussis, a disease that causes characteristic paroxysmal cough in infants. • Can be prevented with DPT or DTaP vaccines containing 6. pertussis antigens, along with diphtheria and ...
Moselio Schaechter, N. Cary Engleberg, Victor J. DiRita, 2007
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The Vaccine Controversy: The History, Use, and Safety of ...
The whooping cough vaccines have been problematic from the start and, in spite of many advances, still are. There are at least eleven different kinds, none of which approaches 100 percent effectiveness, and all of which are associated with ...
Kurt Link, 2005
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A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine
Whooping-Cough. This is unquestionably one of the most remarkable diseases with which we are acquainted. A cough, which is highly contagious in its nature — which has its regular rise, progress, and declension — and which completely ...
John Eberle, 1835
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A History of Epidemics in Britain....: From A.D. 664 to the ...
CHAPTER VI. WHOOPING-COUGH. It is singular that a malady so distinctively marked as whooping-cough is should figure so little in the records of disease from former times. Astruc could find no traces of it in the medical writings of antiquity ...
Charles Creighton, 1965

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WHOOPING COUGH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term whooping cough is used in the context of the following news items.
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As whooping cough grows, study finds vaccine wanes
The last time Washington state had an outbreak of whooping cough, it was 2012 and nearly 5,000 people — mostly babies and young teens — got sick. «The Seattle Times, May 15»
2
California Whooping Cough Infections Run High Among Latino Babies
California is battling the worst whooping cough epidemic in 70 years. Nearly 10,000 cases have been reported in the state so far this year, and babies are ... «NPR, Dec 14»
3
Whooping cough epidemic: California's worst in 70 years
California officials are battling the worst whooping cough epidemic to hit the state in seven decades as a recent rebound in cases raises questions about the ... «San Jose Mercury News, Dec 14»
4
Los Angeles County logs 345 whooping cough cases in 2014 -- so far
Whooping cough -- which causes cold-like symptoms that can escalate into severe coughing fits strong enough to induce vomiting and break ribs -- can strike ... «Los Angeles Times, Jun 14»
5
Docs look for clues to whooping cough epidemic
Scientists are searching for clues to the resurgence of whooping cough, a nearly forgotten childhood infection causing outbreaks around the country. California ... «USA TODAY, Jun 14»
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California declares whooping cough epidemic
California is being hit hard with a whooping cough epidemic, according to the state's public health department, with 800 cases reported in the past two weeks ... «CNN, Jun 14»
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Whooping cough vaccine may not halt spread of illness
A government study offers a new theory on why the whooping cough vaccine doesn't seem to be working as well as expected. The research suggests that while ... «NBCNews.com, Nov 13»
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I've Got Whooping Cough. Thanks a Lot, Jenny McCarthy.
Since I came down with pertussis, more commonly known as whooping cough, waking up on Saturday, August 31, with what felt like a light fever and a tightness ... «The New Republic, Nov 13»
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Vaccine Refusals Fueled California's Whooping Cough Epidemic
When the whooping cough vaccine was invented in the 1940s, doctors thought they had finally licked the illness, which is especially dangerous for babies. «NPR, Sep 13»
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Texans urged to ensure they're up to date on whooping cough vaccine
The threat grows when one considers that scientists estimate 10 cases of pertussis, popularly known as whooping cough, occur for every one reported, she said ... «CNN, Sep 13»

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