Vaccination coverage among kindergartners decreased for all reported vaccines during the 2024 to 2025 school year, data posted to the CDC website showed.

Vaccination rates for several diseases including measles, diphtheria and polio decreased among U.S. kindergartners in the ...

The U.S. could stop adult boosters for both tetanus and diphtheria, which are given together, saving the strapped U.S.

According to a 2024 CDC report, Wisconsin is falling behind other states in childhood immunizations for illnesses.

The United States could safely drop tetanus and diphtheria booster shots for adults and save an estimated $1 billion a year, according to a new review led by researchers at Oregon Health & Science ...

Kanpur: District magistrate Jitendra Pratap Singh on Friday launched a special Td (tetanus-diphtheria) vaccination drive for 10 to 16 years age group .

Diphtheria is primarily caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae and is mainly spread by coughs and sneezes, or through close contact with someone who is infected. Scientists have ...

The CDC warned travelers of "confirmed" cases of diphtheria in Guinea, as well as outbreaks of mpox in Liberia and Sierra ...

Dysentery and diphtheria were relentless killers in the Wild West, taking more lives than many of the era’s famous gunslingers. This video dives into how these diseases spread and why they were so ...

Diphtheria infections can usually be treated with a number of classes of antibiotic. While C. diphtheriae resistant to antibiotics have been reported, the extent of such resistance remains largely ...

Diphtheria is a vaccine-preventable disease affecting mainly children. The primary immunization of three doses of the diphtheria toxoid in infancy is routine throughout the world, except where it ...

Diphtheria is an old disease, a terrible disease, and one for which we believe there’s an effective new treatment at hand — if only we can liberate it from our freezer and put it into the ...