HEALTH officials have issued a warning over a highly contagious bacterial infection spreading through Europe that strikes ...

The CDC says that with treatment, about 9 in 10 people will survive a case of respiratory diphtheria. But up to half of people with the disease who don’t get treatment for it can die from it ...

If infected, people who have not been vaccinated against diphtheria may present with skin infections or respiratory ...

Toxin-producing Corynebac­terium diphtheria usually causes two types of diseases, respiratory diphtheria which affects the upper throat, and skin diphtheria which affect the skin.

Diphtheria is a highly contagious infection that suffocates its victims by forming a thick grey coat over the throat and ...

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has issued an update on a rare bacterial disease that has been ...

Respiratory diphtheria was identified in 53 cases (15%), and nine patients had both cutaneous and respiratory symptoms. Clinical symptoms were not associated with specific STs.

There was a "marked shift" in 2022, as 320 cases were detected in European countries, the ECDC wrote in recent report. "Ten ...

Respiratory diphtheria is a bacterial infection that can cause life-threatening illness when it attacks certain parts of the body, usually in the nose or throat.