Jaipur: Deeg district in eastern Rajasthan struggles with the incidence of diphtheria, a bacterial disease preventable by vaccination, while other parts of the state have nearly succeeded in ...
Diphtheria is a disease caused by a bacterium that affects the upper respiratory tract and less often the skin. (Image Credits: Pexels) Diphtheria Cases in Rajasthan: In the last 30 days around ...
Dr. Muzzammil Gadanya, the Incident Manager at the National Diphtheria Emergency Operations Centre, disclosed this on Wednesday in Kaduna during the National Intra-Action Review Meeting for the ...
Diphtheria cases are on the rise yet again in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, where despite the vaccination campaign launched by the Expanded Program of Immunization (EPI) and the Health Department, K-P the ...
A three-year-old girl died of suspected diphtheria in Punjab’s Faridkot last week, in what may be the first case of the bacterial infection in the state this year. Authorities said the child was not ...
In Rajasthan's Deeg district, diphtheria has claimed the lives of at least seven children. This is a highly preventable bacterial infection through vaccination. Listen to Story Seven children have ...
A serious case of the spread of diphtheria among children has been reported from the Deeg district of Rajasthan. So far, around seven children have lost life due to this in a month. Following this ...
To contain diphtheria outbreak in Deeg district after seven deaths were reported within a month and 24 samples testing positive, teams of the state health department and World Health Organization (WHO ...