Typhoid News
Mnangagwa warns local authorities
- In his first State of the Nation address, Zimbabwe President Mnangagwa challenged local authorities to provide clean water to residents to end recurrences of waterborne diseases
Roadside eateries under scanner after 36 get typhoid in 2 months
- As many as 36 have been diagnosed with typhoid in Pune in two months, putting a question mark on the quality of food and water served at roadside joints as well as in restaurants
Malawi to hold first African typhoid vaccine trial
- Malawi is going to hold the first African typhoid vaccine trial next year, officials have confirmed
- The trial will be done in Ndirande and Zingwangwa townships in Blantyre, targeting at least 24, 000 children aged between nine months and 12 years in a TyVAC study which will run for six months
DIDG committed to typhoid fight
- A local consortium, the Diaspora Infrastructure Development Group, is donating and initiating a campaign aimed at disease management of typhoid
Kenyans to get vaccine that protects babies from typhoid
- Millions of children in developing countries like Kenya will soon be protected against typhoid fever, following an approval by Gavi to support the introduction of a vaccine
Typhoid fever toxin has a sweet tooth
- Very little is known about the molecular mechanisms of Salmonella typhi
- The typhoid toxin has a “sweet tooth”, specifically seeking cells that express particular sugars because of their binding abilities
Misdiagnosis: Trouble as almost everybody ‘tests positive to typhoid, malaria’
- Misdiagnosis of typhoid and malaria common in malaria due to reliance on outdated Widal test and lack of qualified laboratory personnel
- The new typhoid vaccine could be a game-changer in saving lives, especially in Nigeria
Okonjo-Iweala: I almost lost my son to typhoid — but my cousin didn’t make it
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, board chair of Gavi and Nigeria’s first female finance minister, shared her personal experience with typhoid while announcing new funding for typhoid conjugate vaccines
- Her cousin died of typhoid, and her son nearly died
Typhoid: Two children die‚ 60 ill after drinking from contaminated stream
- Two children died and about 60 were admitted to hospital after drinking contaminated water in the Sekhukhune area of Limpopo, South Africa
Millions of children set to be protected against typhoid fever
- Gavi Board approves US$ 85 million funding window for 2019-2020 to support the introduction of typhoid conjugate vaccine in developing countries
- Millions of children in the poorest countries could soon be protected against typhoid fever
Zimbabwe: More than 1,000 typhoid cases reported in Harare area, cases declining
- Since the beginning of Oct. 2017, Zimbabwe has seen more than 1,000 typhoid fever cases in and around the capital city of Harare
- The ongoing typhoid fever outbreak in Harare has been attributed to an acute shortage of potable water in the affected communities
Nine Typhoid Cases Since Nov 2
- Nine cases of typhoid fever have been reported since Nov 2 until yesterday in Belaga, Kapit division, Sarawak
Typhoid outbreak spreads in Harare
- The typhoid outbreak, which first hit Harare’s oldest suburb of Mbare, has spread to Kuwadzana and Dzivarasekwa, where more than 30 people have been admitted and treated of typhoid
- Most cases a result of contaminated boreholes, which have now been decommissioned
20K Lalitpur children to receive new typhoid vaccination
- Around 20,000 children in Lalitpur Metropolitan City will be administered a new vaccine against typhoid, one of the common causes of fever among Nepali children
WHO gravely concerned by deteriorating situation in eastern Ghouta, Syrian Arab Republic
- Escalating violence and lack of essential health services is increasing the risk of disease outbreaks such as typhoid and hepatitis
Suspected typhoid cases in Byo
- Two suspected typhoid cases reported in Bulawayo, among 22 new suspected cases in Zimbabwe
Macuata villages record typhoid cases
- Fiji’s Ministry of Health recorded a total of 41 typhoid cases in Macuata
Glen Norah residents in water demo
- Residents of the Glen Norah suburb of Harare demonstrated against the city’s arbitrary water disconnections, which they said posed a health hazard amidst an ongoing typhoid outbreak
