Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, has ended its emergency diphtheria response in Kano ...

Diphtheria was a common cause of death among children in the United States in the 1920s. A vaccine was introduced in the 1940s, and the illness has now been almost completely eradicated in the U.S.

THE importance of diphtheria has been reemphasized lately by experiences with the disease in foreign countries during the war and its aftermath and by slight but statistically significant increases in ...

In Nigeria’s northern state of Kano, doctors and health workers are grappling with one of the worst diphtheria outbreaks in recent times. Cases have been reported in the country since May of last year ...

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The biomolecule diphthamide is essential for the proper formation of proteins in cells. When humans are infected with diphtheria, diphthamide is altered by the diphtheria toxin so that ...

An adult from the north coast of New South Wales is the latest Australian to be diagnosed with the deadly infectious disease, diphtheria. The patient, who was diagnosed on Monday, is being treated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The tetanus, diphtheria and polio boxes on a vaccination card are blank. A boy who contracted diphtheria and received months of ...

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Long considered a disease of the past, diphtheria continues to affect certain regions of Mauritania. Located in the east of ...