Our German colleagues (Anja Berger and Andreas Sing) have just published and important paper, where they show how respiratory diphtheria is transmitted to vulnerable individuals, and unfortunately causing death. Their results also show that a person with diphtheria of the…

ECDC has just published a Rapid Risk Assessment on Diphtheria caused by Corynebacteriumdiphtheriae ST574 in the EU/EEA. This is a concerning issue as this strain caused more than 300 cases only in 2022. You can find the document from here:…

Our consortium members from LGL (Andreas Sing and Anja Berger), IP (Sylvain Brisse and Julie Toubiana) and our ECDC coordinators are included in the new publication, where diphtheria cases among migrant populations were identified in many European countries. This important…