Amidst all the talk of the Zika virus, potential Brazil travelers might be forgiven for overlooking some of the other diseases that can strike an unwary sightseer. While typhoid ...
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Author: Alice Lee, Sabin Vaccine Institute
Stories of Typhoid: Suzen
Meet Suzen, a 20-year-old information technologies (IT) student in his second year at college in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Outside of school, Suzen works at his family’s jewelry store and plays football ...
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Stories of Typhoid: Yogendra
Meet Yogendra. “I started my life with 100 rupees,” says the 41-year-old resident of Banepa, Nepal. An orphan, Yogendra worked hard his whole life to achieve success. “I had nothing when ...
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Fondation Mérieux holds trials for new enteric fever diagnostic test
Data on incidence of enteric fever are unreliable due to the lack of specificity and sensitivity of the current gold standard diagnostic methods (blood culture or serological Widal and Felix ...
Read moreKnowledge Exchange Newsletter, June 2016
Outbreak Watch Australia – A student at Peter Moyes Anglican Community School in Perth was mistakenly reported to have typhoid fever Fiji – 73 cases of typhoid fever were recorded between January ...
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Paratyphoid outbreak at wedding highlights need for improved WASH surveillance
In March, near the Indian village of Kondotty, more than 100 people fell ill after attending a local wedding reception. The party guests developed varying symptoms including fever, headaches, fatigue, ...
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Stories of Typhoid: Rasmina
Meet Rasmina, a 5 year old living in Banepa, Kavre District, Nepal. An excited kindergartener, Rasmina enjoys going to school, playing with her ball, and eating snacks like chow chow ...
Read moreKnowledge Exchange Newsletter, May 2016
Dear Member, The Coalition against Typhoid is excited to announce Stories of Typhoid, a series of profiles sharing the impact of typhoid on families in endemic countries. In the inaugural ...
Read moreKnowledge Exchange Newsletter, April 2016
Outbreak Watch 14 cases of typhoid fever were reported in Tailevu province, Fiji, at the end of March. More cases were reported throughout Fiji in April; the increase in typhoid ...
Read moreKnowledge Exchange Newsletter, March 2016
Dear Member, March has been a busy month for the Coalition against Typhoid (CaT) Secretariat. We published a summary of the 9th International Conference on Typhoid and Invasive Non-Typhoidal Salmonella ...
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