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| | January 2006 Press Release |
 | | Once whooping cough takes hold, the coughing patient is at risk of serious complications of coughing, such as vomiting, breaking ribs, passing out, and passing the infection on to others. |
 | | An acute cough is generally caused by a “common cold”; a subacute cough can linger after a cold or may persist due to a respiratory tract infection, such as whooping cough or other postinfectious cough. |
 | | Endorsed by the American Thoracic Society and the Canadian Thoracic Society, the new ACCP cough guidelines were developed by an international committee of individuals with expertise and research experience related to cough from the fields of adult and pediatric pulmonology and respirology, pharmacology, neurology, speech and swallowing, and anatomy and physiology. |
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