Diphtheria, a preventable bacterial disease that causes fever, swollen glands, and breathing difficulties, primarily affects ...

Cases of the deadly diphtheria disease are rapidly increasing across Somalia, officials and humanitarians warned on Tuesday, with children accounting for more than 97 percent of the cases.

Diphtheria cases and deaths have risen sharply this year in Somalia, where the response has been curtailed by vaccine ...

In this issue of eBioMedicine, Abbas and colleagues report on a 2022–23 diphtheria outbreak of more than 18,000 cases in Kano, Nigeria, following vaccination campaign disruptions during the COVID-19 ...

The risk of the public getting diphtheria is "very low" despite an expected rise in the number of infections being recorded among asylum seekers, according to the Health Secretary. Steve Barclay ...

Speaking to DAILY POST, the devastated father of the children, Malam Yusuf Maitama, recounted with tears how his children ...

Diphtheria is primarily caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae and is mainly spread by coughs and sneezes, or through close contact with someone who is infected. Scientists have ...

The new findings mesh with the World Health Organization's recent recommendation to only vaccinate adults for tetanus and diphtheria if they didn't have a full series of shots as children. "To be ...

Diphtheria is spreading quickly and more widely in Vietnam’s major coffee region than in previous years, according to the government. Ten more people in the Central Highlands were found to have ...

Diphtheria is an old disease, a terrible disease, and one for which we believe there’s an effective new treatment at hand — if only we can liberate it from our freezer and put it into the ...

News Published: 28 April 1923 Domestic Animals in Relation to Diphtheria W. B. Nature 111, 576–577 (1923) Cite this article ...