My grandmother told me that her first child, a baby girl named Florence, died at 7-8 months old during a diphtheria epidemic in 1913 in Brunswick, Maine. I have never been able to find anything that tells me about this epidemic (it may be that I don't really know how to research it), but I've heard about this particular epidemic from my older relatives many times, since it was such a sad event in their lives. P.T.
The Diphtheria Virus
This is a disease characterized by a high fever, trouble breathing, and a membrane that forms in the respiratory passages. Here are some sentences.The diphtheria epidemic killed thousands.Everyone needs a diphtheria vaccine.At one time, diphtheria was a horrible scourge.
Balto, a Siberian husky
Diphtheria was discovered in 1613 in Spain. In 1735, an epidemic of diphtheria broke out in New England and did not receive the name until 1826.
Yes, there was. I lost a great-aunt during it but can find no information about it. All of the family that remembered anything have long since past away.
can you die from Diphtheria?
The virulence factor for diphtheria is an exotoxin named diphtheria exotoxin.
There are many such commemorations including a statue in New York's Central Park of Balto, the sled dog that was partially responsible for delivering the serum.
No, the noun 'diphtheria' is a common noun, a word for any instance of diphtheria.
The bacterium that causes the infection diphtheria.
Helicopters were developed and built during the first half-century of flight, with the Focke-Wulf Fw 61 being the first operational helicopter in 1936.
Diphtheria is an infectioncaused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae.