croup

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If infected, a "small but significant proportion" among the immunocompromised will develop more severe disease where the lungs are affected, with wheezing, breathlessness and symptoms of croup.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2025

Her mother, Trista Hamsmith, took the toddler to the pediatrician, who suspected croup.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2024

It causes up to 10% of human respiratory infections, mainly in children and immunocompromised people, with symptoms ranging from mild coughs and sniffles to bronchitis and croup.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2023

In November 2019, Toniann thought Lucy-Marie had croup until "this cough noise" disappeared.

From BBC • May 3, 2022

The kind of day on which we draped our coats over our heads, left our galoshes in school, and came down with croup the following day.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison