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		Fact sheet No 089: Diphtheria - Revised December 2000 (WHO, 2000, 2 p.)
			(introduction...)
			What is Diphtheria?
			How Can an Epidemic be Controlled?
			Incidence Rates in the Current Epidemic in the Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union

Incidence Rates in the Current Epidemic in the Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union

Incidence range from 0.5 - 1 per 100,000 population in Armenia, Estonia, Lithuania and Uzbekistan, to 27 - 32 per 100,000 in Russia and Tajikistan.

Case fatality rates range from 2-3% in Russia and Ukraine, to 6-10% in Armenia, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Latvia, and to 17-23% in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkmenistan.

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