0 a serious infectious disease that causes fever and difficulty in breathing and swallowing
1 a serious infectious disease that causes fever and difficulty in breathing and swallowing
By what means are malaria, typhoid fever, diphtheria, and tuberculosis spread from one individual to another?
Eight persons suffering from diphtheria were at the Miami Valley Hospital.
My father and mother died in a scourge of diphtheria that swept the neighborhood when I was a boy of five.
Poor little boy, with all his joy of life and enthusiasms, struck down by diphtheria!
Thus the bacteria of Asiatic cholera and diphtheria may destroy life in a few hours, while those of consumption may take years to produce a fatal result.
By contrast, all the protagonists of diphtheria antitoxin serum insisted that it was a therapeutic treatment.
Second, at the end of the nineteenth century, diphtheria was one of the most widespread infectious diseases.
According to this model, the cost of diphtheria treatment was conceived as a risk that burdened neither the individual, nor the larger collective group.
