diphtheria

That’s the message from the UN World Food Programme (WFP), which appealed on Wednesday for $19 million to provide emergency food assistance to those “in desperate need” in the country’s western Herat province.The agency’s deputy director in…

It was called 'the strangler' for how it ravaged children in the Victorian-era, killing them by the thousands.But experts fear that diphtheria may no longer be a disease of the past and could be spreading silently in UK again.There have now…

Health officials in the UK have raised concerns about migrants being moved to other parts of the country from Kent by the Home office without proper screening after reports suggested that many of them may have diphtheria. Reports suggested…

A health worker fills a disposable injection with a medicine.— AFP/FileISLAMABAD: An outbreak of diphtheria, a deadly infectious disease that causes severe breathing problems, has claimed the lives of at least 39 children across the…