Diseases that time has not overcome: diphtheria and tetanus can be fatal

The recently concluded World Immunization Week once again reminded of the importance of vaccines and stimulated public debate. At the end of last year, a fatal case of tetanus was recorded in Lithuania, and a four-year-old boy died of diphtheria in Latvia last year. Although it seems to many that such diseases are a thing of the past, specialists warn that these infections have not disappeared and still pose a real threat, especially to those wh…