Diphtheria occurs in Czechia, previously recorded in 1995

A rare form of diphtheria has occurred in a woman in the Vysocina Region, who may have got infected from a domestic animal in her family, while this disease was registered in Czechia last time in 1995 and is part of the obligatory vaccination scheme, the State Health Institute (SZU) wrote today. Vaccination against diphtheria has been obligatory in the country since 1946. The two last fatalities caused by diphtheria were recorded in the then Czechoslovakia in 1969.