 |  | Fact sheet No 089: Diphtheria - Revised December 2000 (WHO, 2000, 2 p.) | |
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| | What is Diphtheria? | |
 | | How Can an Epidemic be Controlled? | |
| | Incidence Rates in the Current Epidemic in the Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union | |
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The most effective method is mass immunization of the entire population.
Those individuals who are in close contact with a sick person should be identified and treated immediately with antibiotics. The disease should be diagnosed early and proper case management procedures (i.e. immediate treatment and hospitalization) should be followed in order to prevent complications and death.
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