Tag Archive for PRO/EDR> Diphtheria, cutaneous: travelers
PRO/EDR> Diphtheria, cutaneous: travelers
Diphtheria -- Worldwide/UnknownA 5-year-old girl was brought to the emergency room at Evelina London Children's Hospital with itchy, rather unsightly sores on both legs. She had recently returned from a weeks-long trip to Sierra Leone, and the lesions, which 1st appeared 3 weeks into her stay there, had become larger and ulcerated.Diagnosis: cutaneous diphtheria, a disease rarely seen in many industrialised countries, including Britain and the United States, where most children are protected by the Read more [...]
