Other illnesses can be similar to pneumonia coughs, such as croup and whooping cough. Croup is an illness with a barking cough that ... Pneumonia often causes a dry cough in the early stages ...
Last year also saw the number of whooping cough diagnoses in A&E triple, with 1,696 for the year. Meanwhile, scabies cases – a rash caused by mites on the skin – rose by 66%, with 5,661 ...