The child was transferred to a Berlin clinic and was put on a ventilator there. Through contact tracing by the health department, diphtheria was reported in another person from the child's family ...

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

SUNGAI PETANI: A family lost a second child to diphtheria, almost exactly a month after the death of his older brother. Eleven-month old Muhammad Rusyidi Rizky Amdin (pic) died of the disease ...

These efforts target children under five with vaccines against measles, diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis B, and other preventable diseases. In the first phase of the campaign, 53,095 children across ...

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 ...

Whooping cough is preventable, and getting vaccinated is the best way to protect yourself. The DTaP and Tdap vaccines are very effective at preventing whooping cough, but you’ll need to stay on top of ...

Health authorities will review the vaccination records of 7.5 million children following the first recorded diphtheria case this year. Underwritten Produced with financial support from an ...

“Unfortunately, the very first child that developed the fever passed away at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital from the severe complications of diphtheria. That happens when we don’t ...

Diphtheria has been classified by the World Health Organisation as one of the six deadliest diseases among children and one of the six contributors to the overall global disease burden.