What is the prevalence rate of whooping cough among under five children?

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Elzbieta Sochacka-Tatara

It is a contagious disease, with indeed a relative long duration, but I think that you should rather seek information about incidence of pertussis (whooping cough). It is a routinely collected information in countries with surveillance system, and data from Europe you can find for example in ECDC atlas: https://atlas.ecdc.europa.eu/public/index.aspx

Chen Stein Zamir

see the following publications

Article An update of the global burden of pertussis in children youn...

How best to estimate the global burden of pertussis?

Crowcroft NS, Stein C, Duclos P, Birmingham M.

Lancet Infect Dis. 2003 Jul;3(7):413-8.