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People forgot about polyomelitism, small pox, tetani, diphteria and so on and so on that devastated many gerneration of kids until the vaccine.
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People forgot about polyomelitism, small pox, tetani, diphteria and so on and so on that devastated many gerneration of kids until the vaccine.
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Vietnam added immunizations for polio, tetanus-diphteria toxoids, measles and meningococcal.
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Vietnam added immunizations for polio, tetanus-diphteria toxoids, measles and meningococcal.
Printing: Early and Current Fears about Vaccine Dangers 2009
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Their power is the power of the diphteria bacteria which sits in one place and develops poison which is then distributed by the body itself to the vital organs.
The Bush's New Stormtroopers Plan Ramps Up His War Against America 2007
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- In case of diphteria, procede a survey in the patient neighbourhood.
Chapter 7 1993
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Surprisingly, the Russian physicians did not know this syndrome and believed in the effects of diphteria - an illness which also causes a failing of all reflexes.
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Although not completely eradicated, plague, cholera, typhoid, diphteria, and sepsis have ceased to be a threat to mankind.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1954 - Presentation Speech 1964
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Paralysis of the vocal cords, of the muscles of the eye, of the nerves of hearing, the exudations from the nose and eyes after diphteria, meningitis and scarlet fever, adhesions, suppurations after pneumonia and other forms of inflammatory disease, are often the _consequences of the use of ice_, because the products of inflammation are not absorbed, and the ice paralyzes the neighbouring nerves.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann
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With all this information we should be able to stamp out diphteria entirely.
sionnach commented on the word diphteria
an apparent misspelling of diphtheria
October 1, 2009