After a rise in cases over the summer, whooping cough is continuing to spread across New Jersey just as flu and COVID season unofficially begins this month. The good news is that the start of flu ...
The predicted 2024 increase comes after historically low rates during the pandemic. All of these illnesses can show up as “flu-like symptoms” like fever, congestion, body aches, and cough.
“The most common cause of this is an upper respiratory tract infection such as colds or flu,” says ... in the airway after an infection (known as post-infection cough), asthma, allergies ...
There has been a resurgence of whooping cough in multiple countries in 2024 ... The resurgence in the US indicates "a return to more typical trends" after the COVID-19 pandemic,** when pertussis ...
Both illnesses share symptoms like a runny nose, congestion, cough, and a sore throat ... in adults Symptoms that worsen after initially improving Colds and the flu are common respiratory ...
The illness causes a signature “whooping” sound after someone coughs ... Whooping cough isn’t as common as viral respiratory infections like the flu and COVID-19, but cases are currently ...