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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]