Diphtheria kills after decades, whooping cough increases. Antivaxers are like a sect, says pediatrician

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In neighboring Czech Republic, a man died of diphtheria, a death that has not occurred in 55 years. Why do diseases that are routinely vaccinated come back? Pediatrician Marta Špániková says that in the case of diphtheria, it is a bacterium whose carriers can be five percent of the population.” There are still people who can have this bacterium on the mucous membrane of the throat. This is nothing new, but these diseases did not occur because di…