The whooping cough is an infectious disease. The incubation period of pertussis is 7-14 days.
After the incubation period, the following symptoms: flu-like symptoms, severe cough and colds.
This is followed by severe coughing fits. In the course of the disease, the symptoms less.
While the disease can lead to pneumonia come. This happens in about 15-20% of pertussis cases.
There is a vaccination against whooping cough. The pathogen of whooping cough is Bordetella pertussis virus.
Whooping cough incubation period: 7-14 days.