id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 36006 United States. Public Health Service Diphtheria how to recognize the disease, how to keep from catching it, how to treat those who do catch it .txt text/plain 1745 130 79 UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE Diphtheria is preventable and, when properly treated with antitoxin, is Diphtheria is a disease most often occurring in children and resembling Or the disease may be like a _very severe sore throat_, with small or throat the person feels very sick. Since the diphtheria germs or bacilli grow on the lining of the throat the patient has diphtheria all these droplets of saliva and of mucus persons may have diphtheria bacilli in the nose and throat and yet dangerous discharges from the patient's mouth or nose on the hands. person ill with diphtheria it should be given in _one dose, large enough the doctor injects the antitoxin not only into the patient, but also, as person could or could not catch diphtheria. place, so that the doctor and nurse attending the patient may wash their _Every attendant on the sick should know how disease germs are carried ./cache/36006.txt ./txt/36006.txt