BORDER Force staff are being offered diphtheria jabs amid a surge of cases among Channel migrants arriving into Britain.

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

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

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

Learn about the causes of diphtheria, a deadly bacterial infection. Learn about the symptoms and how to prevent infections with the vaccine.

Diphtheria can lead to serious complications, such as respiratory failure, if left untreated. The outbreak thus far has primarily affected children, with more than 70 per cent of confirmed cases ...

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

Even with treatment, one in 10 people who have respiratory diphtheria die from it, according to the C.D.C.

While respiratory diphtheria is the classical presentation, cutaneous diphtheria, characterized by skin ulcers, also plays a major role in transmission, particularly in outbreak settings.

Diphtheria is an acute, highly infectious bacterial disease that usually affects the respiratory tract (mainly the nose, throat, voice-box and tonsils), and sometimes the skin. Diphtheria that affects ...

South Africa's National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has issued a critical alert regarding the rise of respiratory diphtheria cases since 2024. Learn about the symptoms, prevention ...

Some of President-elect Donald Trump’s picks for the government’s top health posts have expressed skepticism about the safety of childhood vaccines. It’s a sentiment shared by a growing ...