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Travel Health Advice - Diphtheria

Diphtheria

What is it? A bacterial disease affecting the throat and causing obstruction of the airways. Damage to the nervous system follows and thereafter death in up to 20% of cases. How is it transmitted? Person-to-person through close physical contact. Where is it present? Worldwide. Recently there have been epidemics in east European nations. Level of risk? High. What can I do to prevent getting it? All travellers must have the current 'triple vaccine' DTP, which covers diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis. Treatment? Either erythromycin or procaine penicillin.


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African Sleeping Sickness, American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease), Anthrax, Brucellosis, Cholera, Dengue Fever, Diphtheria, Giardiasis, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis E, HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Influenza, Japanese encephalitis, Leishmaniasis, Leptospirosis (including Weil disease), Lyme disease, Malaria, Meningococcal disease, Plague, Rabies, SARS, Schistosomiasis (bilharzia), Swine flu, Tetanus, Tick-borne encephalitis, Tuberculosis, Typhoid fever, Typhus fever, Yellow fever


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Copyright © 2021 Globe Media Ltd. All rights reserved. By its very nature much of the information in this travel guide is subject to change at short notice and travellers are urged to verify information on which they're relying with the relevant authorities. Globe Media cannot accept any responsibility for any loss or inconvenience to any person as a result of information contained above.