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Diphtheria is a highly contagious disease caused by certain germs occasionally found in the throat of apparently normal people! These people are knows as "carriers" of the germs.

Flies carry many different kinds of germs, such as typhoid, cholera, dysentery, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and even the eggs of intestinal worms and parasites.

Difficulty in swallowing sometimes follows certain disease, such as polio, diphtheria, syphilis, or various forms of poisoning, alcoholism, and also hysteria and other mental disorders.