DIPHTHERIA seems to have been resurrected from the grave. Indonesia was declared almost free from the disease in the 1990s, but it has apparently re-emerged. Between January and mid of last week, 714 people in 25 provinces were infected by Corynebacterium diphtheria, the bacterium causing diphtheria. No fewer than 32 died. Eleven provinces have reported an extraordinary situation (KLB) for diphtheria.

At the beginning of last week, the health m