Trevor senior was a widower, and my friend his only son. There had been a daughter, I heard, but she had died of diphtheria while on a visit to Birmingham.
The root problem is that today's parents are the first in history with no memory of the maiming and killing caused by polio, tetanus, diphtheria or measles.
The NCDC said majority of the cases were among people who had not been vaccinated, even though diphtheria is covered by Nigeria's routine childhood immunization program.
At ages 11 through 12, vaccines are recommended to protect against cancers caused by HPV, as well as to prevent tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, and meningitis.
Down in this hallway, though, you're going to go to the contagious and infectious disease hospital for diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, tuberculosis, trachoma.
Tetanus vaccines in childhood and adolescents are given in the form of a triple vaccine, that covers diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis in a single jab.
A twenty-pound package of the precious serum for fighting diphtheria would save the children, the families at Nome, and all the surrounding territory from the Black Death.