South Africa diphtheria update: 15 cases and four deaths
by Staff from Outbreak News Today on (#DNMN)
The last laboratory-confirmed case of respiratory diphtheria in South Africa occurred in February 2010. In a follow-up to a report in late April, the number of cases of the acute, toxin-mediated disease has grown in the KwaZulu-Natal Province (eThekwini and Ugu districts). According to a posting on ProMed Mail by experts at the National Institute for Communicable ["]
