India needs to expand diphtheria vaccine coverage, doctors have said as they warn of dropping herd immunity in the country. Herd immunity refers to when vaccination coverage against a disease is sufficient to stymie the risk of further transmission. The diphtheria vaccine is credited with effecting a ninety percent reduction in disease cases between 1980 …
Immunisation rates in Uttarakhand fell by more than thirty percentage points in two years. Now the state is using stringent measures to drive immunisation rates upwards. Immunisation rates in the state fell to just 61.32 percent of children aged nine to eleven months in 2017-18. This was down from 99.3 percent coverage in the 2015-16 …
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Last December, an infectious disease hospital in Delhi exhausted its supply of medication for diphtheria. In the months that followed, it failed to replenish it. Multiple deaths ensued. Diphtheria is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Symptoms – onset of which typically occur two to seven days after infection – include fever, …
Diphtheria levels in India are at a thirty year high. Does this point towards failings in India’s vaccination efforts against the disease? Diphtheria is a potentially fatal infection of the respiratory tract, caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae. It is typically seen among children or those over the age of 25. However, India is seeing …
Has limited access to medications caused a preventable disease to continue to claim lives in India? Diphtheria is a disease that has largely been reduced in a number of developed nations; in India however diphtheria still persists. Explanations for this typically dwell on the lack of access to both medical treatments and to the vaccinations that …
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