Highly contagious but vaccination usually prevents children contracting it.
Direct person- to-person transmission by intimate respiratory and physical contact. Cutaneous lesions are important in transmission. (Source: excerpt from Diphtheria: DBMD)
can spread from an infected person to the nose or throat of others. (Source: excerpt from Shots for Safety - Age Page - Health Information: NIA)
Contagion and contagiousness refers to how easily the spread of Diphtheria is possible from one person to another. Other words for contagion include "infection", "infectiousness", "transmission" or "transmissability". Contagiousness has nothing to do with genetics or inheriting diseases from parents. For an overview of contagion, see Introduction to Contagion.
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