A six-year-old patient with diphtheria has been in the Lower Silesian Pediatric Center for several days and undergoing intensive care. The unvaccinated child - according to doctors, he has not received a single dose - returned infected from a vacation in an African country.
Diphtheria (diphtheria, croup) is a severe infectious disease that has been eradicated through vaccination. Until the 1950s, diphtheria caused epidemics, which in Poland brought tens of thousands of infections and up to 3,000 deaths annually. At the moment, single cases are reported in Europe. The last epidemic wave was in the middle of the 20th century (colla...
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