It’s a tragedy whenever a child dies needlessly of a disease that is both preventable and treatable. Sadly, that happens daily around the globe, due mainly to a raft of infectious diseases. One of ...

In cases of suspected or diagnosed diphtheria, the first step is admission of the patient to an isolation ward to prevent the spread of this highly contagious disease to other people. The treatment of ...

International action is needed to tackle a global shortage of medicine in Western nations which could hinder the ability of doctors to treat diphtheria, experts have warned. There has been a decline ...

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 this handout photo released by MSF, Dr. Aminu, left, on a routine check up on patients at the diphtheria treatment centre of the Murtala muhammad specialist hospital in Kano, Nigeria, Monday, Aug.

The outbreak of the diptheria disease is gradually becoming a thing of serious concern in the ocuntry and relevant government agencies need to do more to ensure that this doesn’t get to an ...

The Northern Territory and Western Australia are experiencing outbreaks of an almost-eradicated infection, diphtheria. The NT has recorded 17 cases of respiratory diphtheria in the past month and 60 ...

Australia has recorded its first reported death from diphtheria in almost a decade, after the Northern Territory declared an outbreak of the disease in March. The NT death has renewed attention on the ...

Diphtheria is still a killer mainly because the treatment for it is no longer made and stockpiles of it are aging and dwindling. The world needs a new diphtheria antitoxin. It’s a tragedy whenever a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities in several ...