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 an Unrra Health Division statement. 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 Czecho-Slovakia (■especially suffered, but Great Britain and Hungary escaped. Oceans do not constitute an effective barrier against a carrier disease of this type. Unrra urged systematic immunisation to prevent the epidemic from growing.
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Evening Star, Issue 25462, 18 April 1945, Page 5
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