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Focuses on the availability of diphtheria antitoxin in the United States. Cause of respiratory diphtheria; Treatment with equine diphtheria antitoxin (DAT); Complications from the disease if left untreated; Expiration date of the DAT product made by France's Pasteur Merieux and approved under a U.S. Food and Drug Administration program, Investigational New Drug protocol; Indication that a supply of DAT was purchased by the CDC from the Instituto Butantan in Brazil; How physicians can obtain DAT from the CDC Bacterial Vaccine Preventable Disease Branch in the Epidemiology and Surveillance Division of the National Immunization Program.