Typhoid News
‘Mayor must resign’: BJYM protests ‘typhoid outbreak’
- According to reports, more than 300 have fallen ill in Kolkata in the past few days.
After Hyderabad, drug-resistant typhoid emerges in Karachi
- Drug-resistant typhoid in children has emerged in Karachi where cases of patients not responding to antibiotics commonly used to treat the enteric fever have been reported
- This follows on an outbreak of drug-resistant typhoid in Hyderabad
Anti-typhoid campaign: USAID to donate 250,000 syringes to Sindh govt
- Syringes will be used to immunize more than 250,000 children against drug resistant typhoid reported in Hyderabad
Cape Town calls for hygiene blitz amid water crisis
- Officials in Cape Town are urging residents to continue handwashing despite water shortages
- Typhoid cases have doubled in the past year as Cape Town heads towards Day Zero
Unicef pledges cholera, typhoid vaccines
- The United Nations Children’s Fund has pledged vaccines against cholera and typhoid amid recurrent cases of the diseases in Zimbabwe
Typhoid outbreak in Harare sickens more than 2400
- An outbreak of typhoid fever was confirmed last October in the Zimbabwe capital of Harare and since that time some 2,444 suspect and confirmed cases have been reported.
Hyderabad facing world’s first outbreak of drug-resistant typhoid: AKU
- Dozens of children have died in Hyderabad as a result of what has been termed the “world’s first outbreak of drug-resistant typhoid”
- The Aga Khan University (AKU) has blamed contaminated water for the lethal disease, but the Sindh Health Department has ruled it out
Emergency typhoid vaccine drive underway in Hyderabad
- The Sindh Health Department has launched an emergency vaccination campaign in two regions of Hyderabad district to protect children from an outbreak of drug-resistant typhoid
- Around 250,000 children in Latifabad and Qasimabad, the worst-hit talukas in the district, will receive doses of the new Typbar TCV® vaccine
Typhoid case in Nkayi linked to Mbare
- The typhoid outbreak in Harare is suspected to have been trafficked to Nkayi District in Matabeleland North
- A 17-year-old male who recently visited Harare has tested positive for typhoid
No outbreak, says Akbar
- While numerous cases of typhoid are being reported around Fiji, the health minister affirms that there is no outbreak
Typhoid outbreak hits Harare
- Health officials in Harare have detected 200 cases of typhoid in the first week of January, and expect more to emerge
Typhoid resurfaces in Harare
- 200 cases of typhoid have been detected in Harare, Zimbabwe in the first week of January, barely two months after the previous outbreak in October 2017
500 years later, scientists discover what probably killed the Aztecs
- DNA evidence has linked a deadly epidemic that wiped out as many as 15 million people (80% of the population) in the Aztec Nation in 1545 as Paratyphoid C
Vector-borne diseases down, water-borne posing threat
- Health officials fear a surge of waterborne diseases in Ahmedabad
- Already registered 30 typhoid cases in first six days on 2018
Northern residents advised to monitor typhoid cases
- Two hundred and thirty-six typhoid fever cases were recorded throughout the country last year with 116 coming from the Northern Division
- Most recent cases in the Northern Division have been seven confirmed in Natua village
Health Teams Addressing Typhoid Cases In Cakaudrove Province
- Seven confirmed typhoid cases in the village of Natua are being promptly addressed by health teams
WHO prequalifies breakthrough vaccine for typhoid
- At the end of December 2017, WHO prequalified the first conjugate vaccine for typhoid, Bharat Biotech’s Typbar TCV®
- Typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs) are innovative products that have longer-lasting immunity than older vaccines, require fewer doses, and can be given to young children through routine childhood immunization programs
Ministry comes under fire
- The Ministry of Health and Medical Services has come under the spotlight after villages in the Wailevu district in Cakaudrove claimed that it failed to notify them of a suspected typhoid outbreak in the area
W.H.O. Approves a Safe, Inexpensive Typhoid Vaccine
- A new, highly effective typhoid vaccine — the only one safe for infants — has been approved for global use by the World Health Organization
- The need for an effective, affordable vaccine has risen urgently as urban slums grow, hotter weather spreads the disease to new regions and the bacteria develop resistance to more antibiotics
Health Ministry monitors typhoid cases in North
- The Ministry of Health says there were 7 confirmed cases in Natua in Savusavu which has been treated
