| 1 | Diphtheria is a serious infectious disease. | |
| 2 | You get out, said the husband to his wife. Do you want her to die of diphtheria? | |
| 3 | Illnesses like tuberculosis, diphtheria, pneumonia meant only death. | |
| 4 | I first visited Moscow in 1994, during an outbreak of diphtheria in the Russian Federation. | |
| 5 | I'm here to look at her throat on the chance that she might have diphtheria and possibly die of it. |