Articles / What GPs can do as diphtheria re-emerges
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Two recent hospitalisations of Australian children for diphtheria is cause for alarm, says a leading infectious diseases physician.
Speaking on a recent Healthed Going Viral podcast, clinical microbiologist Associate Professor Paul Griffin said diphtheria was a disease ‘thought to be confined to the history books.’
However, these recent notifications prove the bacterial disease is still in existence and the fact the children needed to be hospitalised showed it was still potentially a serious disease.
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