Medical examinations confirmed that 12 of them had early signs of the disease, and they were immediately placed on treatment, receiving antibiotics and diphtheria antitoxin serum. SaharaReporters ...

The only treatment available in 1925 was diphtheria antitoxin serum. The town’s antitoxin supply for a diphtheria outbreak was insufficient and expired, risking a mortality rate of 75% to 99.99%.

The antitoxin used to treat it was developed ... Welch pleaded with the U.S. Public Health Service to send serum: "An epidemic of diphtheria is almost inevitable here." The first death was a ...

The movie, Togo, is based on the time when a dog sleds team did their best to transport an antitoxin serum for the Diphtheria ...

Minus a diminished voice and some pain in this left knee, Vernon Crow told the Gladstone Dispatch that he feels great for his ...

In early 1925, an outbreak of diphtheria threatened to wipe out the entire population of Nome, a remote gold rush town in Alaska. With no antitoxin at hand ... So, was the serum successfully handed ...

A large multicountry outbreak of toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae occurred among migrants entering Europe in 2022, ...

Edo State government has sent 70 doses of anti-diphtheria vaccines to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) to prevent further deaths from the disease. Two persons died of the infection ...

THE Edo State Government on Monday deployed 70 doses of anti-diphtheria vaccines to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, where two people died last week of the disease. The Commissioner for ...

Abia State Ministry of health has issued an urgent health advisory to all residents of the State regarding the outbreak of diphtheria in Imo, a neighbouring state. Briefing journalists on Monday ...