The ancient Hebrews decreed that a warning blast should be sounded on the shofar to mark the third case of an infectious disease in a community, but diphtheria rated a shofar warning for the very ...

THE incidence of diphtheria in the United States as a whole declined from 1924 to 1945. However, in 1945 there were 18,606 cases of the disease — a larger number than had been reported since 1939. The ...

Dr. Bela Schick, world famous pediatrician, immunologist and discoverer of the Schick test for diphtheria, was honored here last night by the American Jewish Congress. D Schick was presented with an ...

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