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How can you distinguish between bronchitis, pneumonia and whooping cough?
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Whooping cough: has a distinct cough. Bronchitis and pneumonia may be difficult to tell apart but many times bronchitis on an X-ray will not show whereas pneumonia should.
Answered 6/10/2015
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