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

A new school year is upon us, bringing with it a long list of to-do’s for Michigan parents. Among the top priorities, ...

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

In Somalia, the diphtheria crisis has intensified with over 1,600 cases and 87 deaths recorded this year. Vaccine shortages ...

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 ...

In this issue of eBioMedicine, Abbas and colleagues report on a 2022–23 diphtheria outbreak of more than 18,000 cases in Kano ...

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

Diphtheria is a vaccine-preventable disease affecting mainly children. The primary immunization of three doses of the diphtheria toxoid in infancy is routine throughout the world, except where it ...

Colorado's state health department will send reminders about routine vaccinations to families of children ages 7-18 who might ...

Nigeria has had previous outbreaks of diphtheria but infections were minimal compared to the recent outbreak. In 2011, 98 cases of the disease were reported in northeastern Borno State.

The good news is, if you had the full series of tetanus vaccine doses as a child or, for those over age 30, any booster in the past several decades, you likely have nothing to worry about. Instead ...

Diphtheria infections can usually be treated with a number of classes of antibiotic. While C. diphtheriae resistant to antibiotics have been reported, the extent of such resistance remains largely ...