Immunization against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis

Tetanus, measles, polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, hepatitis B, yellow fever.

Diphtheria can also cause paralysis in the eye, neck, throat, or respiratory muscles.

Von Behring won the first Nobel Prize in medicine in 1901 for his work on diphtheria.

Patients with severe cases will be put in a hospital intensive care unit and be given a diphtheria antitoxin.

In early May 2010, a case of diphtheria was diagnosed in Port au Prince, Haiti after the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Iran states that it provided a range of vaccinations for diseases, such as tuberculosis, polio, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, measles and meningitis.

Diagnosis The current definition of diphtheria used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is based on both laboratory and clinical criteria.

Vaccines have eradicated smallpox, pushed polio to the verge of eradication, and saved millions of children from measles, diphtheria, tetanus, and other deadly and disabling diseases.

After the breakup of the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s, vaccination rates in its constituent countries fell so low that there was an explosion of diphtheria cases.

Immunization coverage for TB, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and poliomyelitis in the year 2000 in Bosnia and Herzegovina was quite high (95 per cent), but lower than in 1991 (98 per cent).

In cases that progress beyond a throat infection, diphtheria toxin spreads through the blood and can lead to potentially life threatening complications that affect other organs, such as the heart and kidneys.

The average per cent immunized against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2000 was 73.9 per cent, which is significantly lower than the 91.7 per cent immunized in the year 2001.

During 2000, the coverage by immunization with the aim of protection from TBC, diphtheria, tetanus, peruses, poliomyelitis, and morbil was quite high and amounted to 95 , which is slightly lower that it was in 1991, when it amounted to 98 .