Also known as whooping cough, it’s a contagious respiratory illness that can develop into a painful, full-body cough. The coughing fits can be severe, often accompanied by a whooping sound when ...

Posts on Russian social media channels describe painful coughing fits, lingering fevers, and an illness that’s worse than Covid Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has ...

Sometimes asthma comes in a form called cough variant asthma, which doesn’t have typical asthma symptoms. You can treat it the same way as other forms of asthma, but if it persists longer than ...

A cough that lingers after a cold or the flu is usually not something to worry about. Known as a post-infectious or post-viral cough, this lingering cough affects 11% to 25% of adults who have ...

Measles first infects the respiratory tract, then spreads throughout the body, causing a high fever, runny nose, cough, red, watery eyes and a rash. The rash generally appears three to five days ...

A sore throat and ear pain often occur together with a sinus infection, a common cold, allergies, or even a dental problem. That's because the throat and ears are connected by the Eustachian tubes.