Widespread Inoculation Against Diphtheria

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Associates of people with diphtheria need to be examined for the disease, receive

antibiotics and receive inoculation if required. A contact is any person who has been

close enough to an infected person to be at risk of having learnt the infection from that

person.

Family or domestic contact with diphtheria should be from childcare

toddler, school and work until empty to return by the CDCB.
Contacts whose work involves food handling or caring for unimmunised children are excluded from work until they expert to be free of the disease by the CDCB.

Widespread inoculation against diphtheria is the only real control.

The inoculations is administered through the National Immunisation Program.

The first dose of diptheria vaccine, in

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