Venezuela: Bolivar hospital records 19 diphtheria deaths
by News Desk from Outbreak News Today on (#3SY6S)
Infectious disease pediatrician Nathaly Brito confirmed last week that the vaccine-preventable disease, diphtheria, has killed some 19 children at the pediatric hospital Menca de Leoni, in the state of Bolivar, since its reappearance in 2016, according to a Efecto Cocuyo report (computer translated). "Since the disease reappeared in June 2016 through April 2018, 121 cases of ["]
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