AUTHOR Murphy JL, Kahler AM, Nansubuga I, Nanyunja EM, Kaplan B, Jothikumar N, Routh J, Gómez GA, Mintz ED, Hill VR ABSTRACT In 2015, a typhoid fever outbreak began in ...
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Severe fever ravages Kano again
Severe fever affecting communities in Kano, Nigeria Some victims diagnosed with malaria, some with typhoid
Read moreContinuous rain pushes up typhoid cases in city
Doctors in Bengaluru are seeing a spurt in typhoid cases after recent heavy rainfall led to the contamination of water and food Health inspectors have been sent to various parts ...
Read moreMore malaria patients in West Darfur camp
Residents of the El Salam camp in South Darfur are porting the spread of malaria and typhoid Health centers are absent, so they are forced to buy medicines from health ...
Read moreTyphoid fever kills three in Benue
A disease outbreak suspected to be typhoid fever has killed three people in Naka Town, in Benue, Nigeria
Read moreBenue Flood: Five cases of diarrhoea reported in IDP camp; occupants reach 4,776
A camp in Makurdi, Nigeria, hodling 4,776 people internally displaced by heavy flooding, has reported five cases of diarrhea and several cases of typhoid and malaria
Read moreManyenyeni vows to revive Harare’s Sunshine City status
The Harare mayor has acquired 30 new refuse collection trucks through a bank loan This follows a typhoid outbreak earlier this year, when it was discovered that most of the ...
Read moreUganda: Kalangala Struggling to Contain Waterborne Pollution in Communities
Communities living in Kalangala District stand a greater risk of contracting waterborne diseases arising from the increasing consumption of unsafe water and poor sanitation
Read moreGrieving journalist narrates how doctors abandoned dying son; teaching hospital launches probe
The seven-year-old son of a journalist died of typhoid complications in a hospital in Bauchi, Nigeria after doctors delayed intestinal perforation surgery for 18 hours
Read moreScientist warns of drug resistant typhoid strain
Professor Sam Kariuki of the Kenya Medical Research Institute warned that H58, a deadly strain of typhoid, is spreading in East Africa H58 has become resistant to more than 60 ...
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