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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Baby died of diphtheria last night.
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Bubonic plague, typhoid, polio, diphtheria , tuberculosis, syphilis and gonorrhea still afflict much of the world.
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Children were carried off by diphtheria , scarlet fever, and measles.
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Do not understand your message of 31.10. reporting his death from diphtheria .
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He has been very poorly indeed and the doctor says it is diphtheria .
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It may be short-term, for example as a protection against influenza, or almost life-long, for example against diphtheria .
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The following summer William died of diphtheria .
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The vaccine can be given at the same time as immunisations against diphtheria , whooping cough and tetanus.