**Note: the release below from the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2023, Copenhagen, 15-18 April). Please credit the conference if you use this story**
Various European countries experienced outbreaks of diphtheria mostly linked to incoming migrants.
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Dr Helena Seth-Smith (University of Zurich), Dr Sylvain Brisse (Institut Pasteur - Paris (France) and collaborators from across Europe including the European Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) assessed cases of diphtheria in migrants that had arrived in 10 European countriesSwitzerland (52 cases), Germany (118), UK (59), Austria (69), France (30), Belgium (21), Norway (8), The Netherlands (5), Italy (3), and Spain (1).
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