“…A diphtheria epidemic in the former Soviet Union in the 1990s resulted in N 157.000 cases claiming~5000 lives (Dittmann et al, 2000). Yet, this pathogen is not under control, and the have been multiple outbreaks in different countries since 2000 including Colombia (Landazabal et al, 2001), India (Parande et al, 2014;Saikia et al, 2010), Norway (Rasmussen et al, 2011), Nigeria (Besa et al, 2014), Thailand (Wanlapakorn et al, 2014), and more recently in Brazil (Santos et al, 2015), Laos (Nanthavong et al, 2015) and Indonesia (Hughes et al, 2015).…”