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from Section 2 - Mother and Child Health
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2025
Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a highly infectious acute respiratory disease that typically affects children. The causative organism is mainly Bordetella pertussis with a minority of cases caused by Bordetella parapertussis. The World Health Organization estimated that 24.1 million cases of pertussis occurred worldwide in 2014, resulting in an estimated 160,700 deaths in children under 5 years of age, with 58% of these occurring in the Africa region (Yeung et al. 2017). Pertussis can affect all age groups but presents as a more severe disease with a higher mortality in infancy and early childhood.
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