ALL BOUNDS BROKEN
SPREAD OF DIPHTHERIA IN
EUROPE
WASHINGTON, April 16. The Nazi armies carried diphtheria to all parts of invaded Europe, where the disease has now broken all bounds, says a statement by the health division of UNRRA. Most of Germany's neighbours reduced diphtheria before the war, but disease-carriers with the German armies spread the epidemic wherever they went.
Norway, Belgium, Holland, northern France, and Czechoslovakia especially have suffered, but Great Britain and Hungary escaped. Oceans do not constitute an effective bairier against the carrier of a disease of this type. UNRRA is urging a systematic immunisation to prevent the epidemic growing. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 91, 18 April 1945, Page 5
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