Diphtheria is a highly contagious infection that suffocates its victims by forming a thick grey coat over the throat and ...

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has issued an update on a rare bacterial disease that has been ...

Regularly assess the availability of diphtheria antitoxin (DAT) for treatment locally/nationally. Improve surveillance to ...

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I was literally nauseated by Kennedy’s remarks” about Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, writes former CDC Director Tom Frieden.

It also mandated the Committee on Health and Health Institutions to assess the level of compliance with the mandatory diphtheria immunisation, the capacity of health institutions to effectively ...

The number of diphtheria cases identified in South Africa has increased to 40 after nine new cases were recorded between 9 and 23 March, according to the latest report from the National Institute for ...

Wit treatment, most pipo wey get diphtheria dey survive dis complications, but recovery often dey slow. Diphtheria dey deadly about 5% to 10% of di time.

On prevention, WHO said diphtheria can be prevented by vaccines that are often given in combination with tetanus and pertussis and other diseases.

The same result could be obtained by the inoculation of the pleura exudation of animals dead of experimental diphtheria or by the injection of chemical compounds, such a trichloride of iodine ...

Source said that at present 16 children with diphtheria are under treatment at the hospital, which is one of the few government-supported health facilities in the province where the antitoxin ...