Latvia reports increase in diphtheria, Reduced vaccination coverage of children blamed

Reduced vaccination coverage in children due to parental failure to get their children vaccinated has led to an increase in the vaccine-preventable disease, diphtheria, in recent years including cases in children, according to a Russian media report (computer translated). From the years of 2009 through 2011, Latvia saw a total of 14 diphtheria cases, none ["]