AUTHORS Chisomo L. Msefula, Franziska Olgemoeller, Ndaru Jambo, Dalitso Segula, Trinh Van Tan, Tonney S. Nyirenda, Wilfred Nedi, Neil Kennedy, Matthew Graham, Marc Y. R. Henrion, Stephen Baker, Nicholas Feasey, ...
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Two million in Zimbabwe’s capital have no water as city turns off taps
More than two million residents around Zimbabwe’s capital have no access to running water, as drought and breakdowns push the city system to collapse. Just 50% of 4.5 million people ...
Read morePoor waste management making bacteria harder to kill
Birds perched on trees eye piles of uncollected mounds of garbage, the playgrounds of rats scampering in and out of the dirt. To the naked eye, this is the routine ...
Read moreGlen View Hit By Typhoid Outbreak
Glen View high-density suburb in Harare has been hit by a typhoid outbreak, the Harare City Council said on Thursday. Rights groups have warned that the situation may get worse ...
Read moreThe doctor who beat Ebola — and inspires other survivors to care for the sick
At first, Maurice Kakule Mutsunga suspected that the woman had malaria or typhoid: she was feverish and fatigued, and had been admitted to the hospital in Mangina in the Democratic ...
Read moreAccess to basic sanitation still lagging for millions in East and Southern Africa
Despite progress towards ensuring basic sanitation services for all, access still eludes many. According to recent estimates, over half of the global population – or 4.2 billion people across the ...
Read moreOn the Ground in Malawi – First Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine Study in Africa
AUTHORS Pratiksha Patel, Priyanka Patel, James E. Meiring, Theresa Misiri, Felistas Mwakiseghile, and Melita A. Gordon ABSTRACT The marathon of vaccinating children began on February 21, 2018, at 10:13 AM, ...
Read morePerformance of Widal test and stool culture in the diagnosis of typhoid fever among suspected patients in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
AUTHORS Akili Mawazo, George M. Bwire, and Mecky I. N. Matee ABSTRACT We set an experiment to determine the diagnostic performance of the Widal test and stool culture in typhoid-suspected ...
Read moreLaboratory characterisation of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi isolates from Zimbabwe, 2009–2017
AUTHORS Tapfumanei Mashe, Muchaneta Gudza-Mugabe, Andrew Tarupiwa, Ellen Munemo, Sekesai Mtapuri-Zinyowera, Shannon L. Smouse, Arvinda Sooka, Babill Stray-Pedersen, Anthony M. Smith, and Joshua Mbanga ABSTRACT Typhoid fever remains a major public health problem in Zimbabwe with recurrent ...
Read moreDomestic river water use and risk of typhoid fever: results from a case-control study in Blantyre, Malawi
AUTHORS Jillian S Gauld, Franziska Olgemoeller, Rose Nkhata, Chao Li, Angeziwa Chirambo, Tracy Morse, Melita A Gordon, Jonathan M Read, Robert S Heyderman, Neil Kennedy, Peter J Diggle, Nicholas A ...
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