Hospitals that began using his serum therapy saw dramatic drops in mortality rates. In some cases, the death rate among children with diphtheria plummeted from 50% to less than 10%. For the public ...

Poland Spring Resort celebrates the Seppala Siberian Sleddog’s official designation as the official state dog of Maine. The ...

“GOODNESS SNAKES!” June 26 at 6 p.m., Trafalgar Library, 424 S. Tower Drive. Free and open to the public. Naturalist Eli ...

It was then, even before the most devastating waves of Covid killed millions, that Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by volume, decided to take a bet on an ...

Western Europe experienced the largest surge in reported diphtheria infections in 70 years. Clinical and genomic data from ...

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that the largest diphtheria epidemic in Western Europe for ...

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

He hadn't seen a case of diphtheria in the 18 years he had practiced in the area. Within months, that changed. In a telegram, Welch pleaded with the U.S. Public Health Service to send serum ...

The Imo State Government has confirmed the outbreak of diphtheria disease in parts of ... isolation, and treatment of cases. “Key response actions already underway include: Free treatment ...

the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control and the National Health Care Development Agency to enforce the mandatory diphtheria immunisation, testing and treatment across healthcare centres in all 774 ...