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The TRIP database provides clinical publications about evidence-based medicine.
Other potential sources include: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and CDC

chin cough

and chink cough should be mentioned here as historical terms for the illness. {{citation |last= |first= |contribution=chincough, ''n.'' |contribution-url=https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/31760 |date=2022 |title=Oxford English Dictionary |ref={{harvp|''OED''|2022}} |url=http://www.oed.com |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press }}. — LlywelynII 16:26, 18 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Outbreaks in Epidemiology section

The section has accumulated a random list of outbreaks. This should be replaced with a paragraph on global prevalence and trends, currently missing.

WP:NOTEVERYTHING Bob (talk) 21:56, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Curious initial edit summary

This article was created in January 2003 with the edit summary "replacement for former stub". There's information about the "former stub" this article replaced in the January 2003 deletion log, in which an entry indicates that an article called "Pertussis" was created and then deleted because it only contained the text "Also known as Whooping Cough. " Graham87 (talk) 15:42, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Anth1913

This article is currently the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 19 August 2024 and 10 December 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Daisylampkin (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Daisylampkin (talk) 14:27, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]