The serious bacterial infection affects the respiratory system but can also damage the heart, kidneys, and nervous system.

Diphtheria is a vaccine-preventable disease and it is one of the diseases that routine immunisation protects against in ...

Diphtheria is a serious bacterial infection caused by a small bacterium known as Corynebacterium diphtheriae. It is a gram-positive bacterium, meaning it has a thick and complex configuration in ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Between October, 1918, and August, 1919, 75 cases of diphtheria and 102 carriers o f diphtheria bacilli were treated at the Walter Reed ...

It was highly contagious, lethal and mysterious. Then medical experts developed treatments and vaccines, and the affliction disappeared—but not entirely By Perri Klass - Author, A Good Time to ...

More than 78% of the cases have been in adults," Sabani added. Nine of the 40 people died. The best protection against diphtheria, caused by a bacteria called toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae, is ...

Szenborn said to the Polish Press Agency. Diphtheria is a dangerous bacterial disease caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Until the 1950s, it triggered epidemics and frequent deaths.

NICD spokesperson Vuyo Sabani said that since mid-June 2024 to March 23, 2025, 40 cases of diphtheria caused by a bacteria called toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae have been confirmed in the ...

“Subsequently, once we identified that this was diphtheria, we were able to screen ... “To further interrupt the transmission of the bacteria from child to child, we’ve come to inspect ...

Oluwaserimi Ajetunmobi who stated this in Ibadan, the state capital at the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), described diphtheria as a highly contagious bacterial infection that spreads through ...