Talk:tosferina

Sorry, I'm not very familiar with this particular Wiki - Please excuse any inadequacies in my formatting etc.

I was trying to look up the derivation of tosferina and tos convulsa (and to see whether they are true synomyms, and/or where, when, or why one is preferred to the other) before giving talks on whooping cough (in English - I'm from England with Spanish which is better than rudimentary, but not up to giving a lecture) in Venezuela and Peru. Other speaker's slides seem to refer to Coqueluche (which I think is the French word for the disease) and tos convulsa - which seems quite a nicely descriptive name.

See also e.g.

• http://www.medicinayprevencion.com/varios/coqueluche.htm
• http://weblogs.madrimasd.org/salud_publica/archive/2008/11/03/105717.aspx
• http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coqueluche

--Penglish 15:54, 18 March 2009 (UTC) (edited --Penglish 16:15, 18 March 2009 (UTC) )