Typhoid News
Metabolic markers accurately diagnose typhoid fever
- Researchers have identified a metabolite ‘signature’ that can accurately distinguish typhoid from other fever-inducing tropical diseases using patient blood samples
Typhoid claims one life in Mpika
- An 11-year-old girl has died from typhoid in Mpika, Zambia
- The disease outbreak has been attributed to water shortages in the area
Typhoid breaks out in Mpika
- In Mpika district, Zambia, 38 cases of typhoid have been recorded so far, with two still in the hospital and 36 patients have been discharged
What’s behind the surge in typhoid cases in Delhi?
- A surge in the number of fever cases has worried the Delhi High Court, which has asked the Delhi Jal Board to provide potable water
Typhoid kills father, daughter in Passi City
- A 47-year-old father and his 21-year-old daughter from Passi City have died of typhoid fever last week
- A four-year-old male belonging to the same family is still in the hospital. Two additional cases also have typhoid
Contaminated water spreading typhoid, hepatitis, diarrhoea in Nawabshah
- Half a million people in Nawabshah, Pakistan drink contaminated water that can spread diseases like typhoid and other waterborne diseases
You may be drinking sewage water
- Lab test finds 267 water sources in Pune district unsafe for drinking; experts say 20 per cent rise in water-borne diseases this summer
Health crisis looms in Harare
- The Harare city council has stopped collecting garbage due to a shortage of collection vehicles
- This move comes months after a local typhoid outbreak with over 400 cases that led to at least two deaths, which was at least partly blamed on a lack of refuse collection
Nations unveil cross-border initiative to fight diseases
- Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi are working on a collaborate cross-border plan to prevent the spread of infectious diseases
Hot summer season, typhoid fever increased in Ho Chi Minh City
- Three cases of typhoid recorded in past three months in Ho Chi Minh City
16 people diagnosed with typhoid to date
- The Ministry of Health in Tonga has reported a total of 16 typhoid cases to date
Typhoid vaccines to be free in 3 months in Mumbai
- Mumbai will give out free typhoid vaccinations for the next three months
- This move is expected to help thousands of low-income families
A global health guardian: climate change, air pollution, and antimicrobial resistance
- Antimicrobial resistance is a global health challenge on the rise in every region of the world
- An epidemic of multidrug-resistant typhoid fever has been rolling across parts of Africa and Asia
India to bring in law to promote generic drugs
- India has announced a plan to force doctors to prescribe general medicines over branded drugs in an effort to lower the cost of healthcare
- People like Sunita Devi, who paid most of a month’s earnings to pay the medical costs of her 4-year-old son who had typhoid, would benefit.
Scientist 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 percent of locally available antibiotics in Kenya
- Although Kenya is “hyper endemic” for typhoid, it is often misdiagnosed
Zimbabwe Humanitarian Situation Report No.#13 – 30 April 2017
- The UN Children’s Fund reports that more than 2,200 suspected typhoid cases have been reported in the country out of which 64 have been laboratory confirmed and six typhoid related deaths reported
- Many in Zimbabwe are displaced by flooding, and thousands of children have been treated for severe acute malnutrition due to drought
Toilet volunteers help clean up Bhutan in public health push
- A team of volunteers are building and upgrading toilets in Bhutan in an effort to lower the spread of diseases like typhoid
Health alert: Time to update your vaccines
- Doctors in the United Arab Emirates are reminding residents to update their vaccinations for diseases like typhoid
309 compounds issued against food outlet operators over anti-typhoid injections – health ministry
- The health ministry of Malaysia has issued 309 injunctions against food outlet operators to failed to ensure that their food handlers received typhoid vaccines
