Typhoid News
El Salvador reports typhoid epidemic, hundreds of suspected cases
- 644 suspected cases of typhoid fever to date in an epidemic outbreak affecting 26 municipalities in El Salvador; 100 percent increase in cases compared to the same period last year
Drug-resistant bacteria thrive at Mumbai’s most popular beaches
- National Institute of Oceanography finds Salmonella typhi in water of popular Mumbai beaches, along with drug-resistant E. coli and other bacteria
Special Report: Diarrhea, Typhoid Killing Refugees in Camps
- Diarrhea and typhoid are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among refugees
Monsoon season puts Rohingya refugees at risk – time for international support is now, says the International Rescue Committee
- The upcoming monsoon season in Bangladesh threatens the nearly 700,000 Rohingya refugees who have settled in camps there, increasing the danger of diarrheal diseases, malaria, and typhoid
Typhoid scare: South Delhi’s Nehru Nagar residents blame unclean DJB water
- At least six people in this neighborhood, three of them children from a single family, were infected with typhoid in the last two months
- Residents blame contamination of the water pipeline
Typhoid case confirmed in Queensland
- A hospital staff member in Townsville, Australia, is being treated for typhoid, which is rare in Australia
- Public health officials believe that the risk to the community is low
Spurt in fever, typhoid among kids due to heat wave
- In Dehradun, India, a severe heat wave has resulted in a spurt of cases of fever, diarrhea and typhoid, especially in children
Heatstroke, fever cases spike as temperature rises in Delhi
- One doctor estimates that in the last few days, there has been a rise of about 20-25 percent in the cases of heat stroke, dehydration, upset stomach, and typhoid
Study reveals city potable water rife with bacteria
- Residents of Kathmandu Valley have been forced to drink water infected with coliform bacteria such as Vibrio cholera and Salmonella typhi, a new study reveals.
- Tests showed that 78.75 percent of the 758 samples collected from different sources including tap, tube-well, well, tanker, jar, and bottled water in 2016-2017 had coliform.
North Quincy daycare reopens after child’s diagnosis of typhoid fever prompted closure
- A North Quincy daycare center that closed after officials confirmed a child had a case of typhoid fever reopened Tuesday
Typhoid scare at Boston-area day care after child diagnosed
- A child at a day care and preschool in Massachusetts was diagnosed with typhoid fever. The child had recently travelled abroad
- Parents were informed that their child must submit a stool sample to health authorities to ensure they are not carrying typhoid fever
Some gut bacteria may protect against intestinal infection
- Subjects who had higher levels of methanogens were significantly less likely to become sick following exposure to typhoid
- This new study establishes for the first time that certain gut microbes may keep infection at bay
The Legendary Sultan Saladin Was Likely Killed by Typhoid
- Reviewing historical accounts of his death, doctors and historians believe 12th century sultan Saladin’s sweating fits and weakness were brought on by a typhoid infection
Pakistan launches typhoid conjugate vaccine
- The government of Pakistan has become the first country to approve the nationwide rollout of a typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) following new evidence of the spread of an unusual typhoid strain which is extensively resistant to antibiotics
- “For too long, typhoid, which invariably affects the world’s poorest people, has been neglected in efforts to improve global health,” said Dr Anita Zaidi, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Taiwan CDC urges people to avoid raw food and contaminated beverages to ward off typhoid fever
- Last week the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (Taiwan CDC) announced one new imported case of typhoid fever in an over 20-year-old female who resides in northern Taiwan
Typhoid vaccine efficacy study begins in Dhaka
- Typhoid vaccine efficacy study will be conducted among 43,350 children between nine months and 16 years in Dhaka’s Mirpur area
- The study is a part of the Typhoid Vaccine Acceleration Consortium (TyVAC) project, in which researchers are conducting studies to evaluate how much typhoid can be prevented by the typhoid conjugate vaccine in Bangladesh
Health authorities dispel typhoid outbreak reports
- Authorities have described as untrue reports that there is a typhoid outbreak in Blantyre
- This follows claims that several people have shown signs of the disease within the city
