The U.S. could stop adult boosters for both tetanus and diphtheria, which are given together, saving the strapped U.S.

A new study challenges the conventional wisdom behind the current 10-year schedule for tetanus-diphtheria boosters.

The United States could safely drop tetanus and diphtheria booster shots for adults and save an estimated $1 billion a year, ...

The first two cases of a diphtheria-like illness being transmitted in the United States between people and their pets have been reported in Utah and Colorado.

Like the United States, France recommends tetanus and diphtheria booster vaccines for adults. But the United Kingdom hasn't ...

For RFK Jr. and his antivax supporters and associates, aluminum adjuvants in some required children’s vaccines appear to be ...

The CDC warned travelers of "confirmed" cases of diphtheria in Guinea, as well as outbreaks of mpox in Liberia and Sierra ...

Diphtheria is primarily caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae and is mainly spread by coughs and sneezes, or through close contact with someone who is infected. Scientists have ...

So successful was Von Behring, who went on to produce a vaccine for the disease, that diphtheria was almost wiped out and demand for the antitoxin – the treatment used when a person actually ...

Diphtheria infections can usually be treated with a number of classes of antibiotic. While C. diphtheriae resistant to antibiotics have been reported, the extent of such resistance remains largely ...

Diphtheria is a vaccine-preventable disease affecting mainly children. The primary immunization of three doses of the diphtheria toxoid in infancy is routine throughout the world, except where it ...

Diphtheria is an old disease, a terrible disease, and one for which we believe there’s an effective new treatment at hand — if only we can liberate it from our freezer and put it into the ...