Two asylum seekers have been hospitalised with diphtheria amid a 50 per cent rise in cases of the infectious disease in the past month, new data has revealed.It comes after the Home Office confirmed that a man who died after staying at the Manston processing centre did have diphtheria.Diphtheria is a highly contagious infection that is very rare in the UK - due to high levels of vaccination in the general population.
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