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

Vaccination rates for diseases like measles, diphtheria, and polio have declined among U.S. kindergartners in the 2024-25 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 and has always been a disease of poverty," he emphasizes, with social unrest and poor vaccination coverage explaining most outbreaks nowadays.

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 ...

A new study challenges the conventional wisdom behind the current 10-year schedule for tetanus-diphtheria boosters.