A disease thought to have been long dead by health experts has experienced a massive resurgence in Australia in recent weeks.

A rare diphtheria outbreak is spreading across the ditch, but are Kiwis at risk of the potentially life-threatening disease ...

The biomolecule diphthamide is essential for the proper formation of proteins in cells. When humans are infected with diphtheria, diphthamide is altered by the diphtheria toxin so that ...

Health authorities are urging Australians to check vaccinations as diphtheria cases spread across four regions. Almost all reported diphtheria cases have involved Indigenous Australians, authorities ...

Health minister Mark Butler says vaccines are being rushed into NT communities, with one suspected death ...

In Nigeria’s northern state of Kano, doctors and health workers are grappling with one of the worst diphtheria outbreaks in recent times. Cases have been reported in the country since May of last year ...

The federal government has moved to contain a potentially deadly disease, as several states are gripped by the “biggest ever” outbreak of the disease in history.

An adult from the north coast of New South Wales is the latest Australian to be diagnosed with the deadly infectious disease, diphtheria. The patient, who was diagnosed on Monday, is being treated ...

A man in his early 60s has died from diphtheria in Australia’s Northern Territory (NT), becoming the second person to succumb to the disease in ...

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