when was whooping cough dicovered
It was discovered by Belgian immunologist, Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet and Octave Gengou, a Belgian bacteriologist. They both together worked on Bordetella pertussis bacteria and claimed that it is a cause of whooping cough.The first whooping cough vaccine was produced in 1912 by Octave Gengou.hooping cough or Pertussis is a dangerous impartible bacterial disease. It is caused by âBordetella pertussisâ bacteria. It causes satirical and furious cough.
Answer     Bordetella pertussis is the bacterium that causes pertussis (whooping cough). It is spread from host to host only by humans and travels through the air. Nobo â¦ dy knows where the bacterium originated but it was first isolated by scientists in Belgium in 1906.nswer     Bordetella pertussis is the bacterium that causes pertussis (whooping cough). It is spread from host to host only by humans and travels through the air. Nobo â¦ dy knows where the bacterium originated but it was first isolated by scientists in Belgium in 1906.