diphtheria

Some vaccines are required for school entry in every state — measles, polio, diphtheria — because they have extremely high efficacy rates and are related to diseases that spread through normal daily contact with other kids in schools.

For example, the flu vaccine needs a booster every year, and the diphtheria and tetanus vaccine every 10 years.

The first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Emil von Behring in 1901 for his work studying serum therapy for diphtheria.

One of his brothers died of diphtheria during the Nazi siege of Leningrad in World War II.

Diphtheria, on the other hand, is perfectly capable of causing an outbreak in a vulnerable population.

Thankfully, diphtheria has been essentially eliminated in the United States.

Instead, the concerns reflect the fact that unlike measles or diphtheria or rubella, HPV is not spread by casual contact.

His optimism led him to compare ending poverty to eradicating scarlet fever and diphtheria.

Fibrinous casts are characteristic of fibrinous bronchitis, but may also be found in diphtheria of the smaller bronchi.

A germ flies from a stagnant pool, and the laughing child, its mother's darling, dies dreadfully of diphtheria.

Pseudomembranous conjunctivitis generally shows either streptococci or diphtheria bacilli.

So long as Christians have an overwhelming majority who will not touch the drains, diphtheria must continue.

School-children at times have what appears to be mere sore throat but which is really diphtheria in the naturally immune.