Australia’s largest recorded diphtheria outbreak is spreading through remote Indigenous communities (opens in new tab)

By the time a national vaccine blitz was announced this week, unlinked cases had already been reported in four states. Why did it take so long for governments to act?Get our , or The first time the Northern Territory GP and public health medical officer Dr John Boffa learned that the highly contagious in his community was in late March – several months after the outbreak first began.“By the time we became aware of it, it had been grumbling along for some time,” says Boffa, who is chief medica...