Typhoid News
Filipino 1st local typhoid case in Taiwan this year
- The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on Friday (Feb. 14), announced the first locally-acquired case of typhoid this year, in Taiwan’s Kaohsiung City
- None of the people who had been in close contact with him while he had the illness have shown signs of the disease thus far
- The CDC is continuing to investigate his diet history and people he had been in contact with to isolate the cause of the infection
Child diagnosed with rare Typhoid fever at Briarwood Elementary
- On Wednesday, February 5, Briarwood Elementary School was notified by the Barren River District Health Department of a confirmed case of typhoid fever in one of their students
- Principal Lori Morris advised parents to be watchful of the following symptoms in their children: 103-104 degrees Fahrenheit fever, weakness, stomach pain, headache, diarrhea or constipation, cough, or loss of appetite
Typhoid: 90pc of children in hotspots vaccinated
- At least 90 percent of children between five and 16 years were vaccinated during the 2019 typhoid campaign in Harare’s high risk areas, including 74 percent of those aged between six months and four years
- The campaign took place in Harare suburbs of Mufakose, Hopley, Budiriro, Dzivaresekwa, Glen View, Glen Norah, Mbare and Hatcliffe, targeting 325 000 children
- Director of Epidemiology and Disease Control in the Ministry of Health and Child Care, Dr Portia Manangazira, said the mass vaccination followed evidence that typhoid was becoming endemic in recent years
Telangana traffic cops get typhoid shots
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HYDERABAD: A vaccination drive was conducted for over 500 traffic police personnel at CAR, Police Headquarters, Amberpet, on Sunday
- The purpose of the vaccination drive was to help traffic police, who are at risk and spend odd hours on the field to immunize them against typhoid infection
Alarm raised as typhoid germs become drug resistant
- The bacteria behind the typhoid fever is becoming more and more resistant to antibiotics due to unchecked use of such drugs
- Experts revealed the information in a three-day international conference titled “15th Asian Conference on Diarrhoeal Disease and Nutrition,” which began on Tuesday at Hotel Sonargaon in Dhaka
- Dr Samir Saha, professor of Dhaka Shishu Hospital and Child Health Research Foundation led the session and presented a paper titled “Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine – A tool to end the arms race against Typhoid Salmonella.”
How to Improve on a Good Year for Global Health
- The discovery of new viruses, vaccines, and treatments in 2019 was the result of investments in global surveillance, cross-sector partnerships, and scientific advances
- The Typhoid Vaccine Acceleration Consortium completed a large field study in Nepal which showed that the typhoid conjugate vaccine is safe, immunogenic, and effective, and could significantly reduce typhoid infection among high-risk groups
Three-day 15th ASCODD kicks off in city Tuesday
- International, regional and national public health experts will gather in Dhaka on January 28-30 to discuss challenges and solutions of typhoid fever, cholera, malnutrition and other enteric diseases in low and middle-income countries in an era of humanitarian crisis
- Diarrhoeal diseases are still the third leading cause of child mortality globally
- An estimated 11–20 million people suffer from typhoid fever. In South Asia, typhoid fever is the most common bloodstream infection
Do studies underestimate the prevalence of typhoid?
- Blood culture surveillance programs are critical for estimating the prevalence of typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, but cases can be missed when patients don’t seek medical care, or seek medical care and don’t have a blood culture test
- The Typhoid Vaccine Acceleration Consortium (TyVAC), a partnership between the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the Oxford Vaccine Group at the University of Oxford, and PATH, an international nonprofit, aims to accelerate the introduction of new typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs)
Daewoong launches oral typhoid fever vaccine
- Daewoong Pharmaceutical said that it has launched Vivotif, an oral typhoid fever vaccine, in the local market
- Vivotif is the only typhoid fever vaccine in Korea that received approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and European Medicines Agency
- In a clinical study of 10,594 patients in Santiago, Chile, where typhoid fever was present, a single dose of Vivotif showed that it prevented typhoid fever in 71 percent of the patients in its first year, and 67 percent of the patients after three years
Zimbabwe: ‘Water, Sanitation Key to Ending Recurrent Diarrhoeal Diseases’
- Providing adequate safe water and improving sanitation is key to ending recurrent outbreaks of diarrhoeal diseases that include typhoid, cholera and common diarrhoea in Harare’s western suburbs
- Disease and epidemiology control director in the Ministry of Health and Child Care Dr Portia Manangazira said while Government rolled out cholera and typhoid vaccines last year to protect residents against water-borne diseases, improving the city’s water and sanitation remained critical
Six common diseases to watch out for during floods
- The torrential rains that caused massive floods in Greater Jakarta on New Year’s Eve may have subsided, but the rainy season is far from over, meaning more floods are likely
- Those affected by floods are at risk of getting infected with water-borne diseases contracted through direct contact with polluted waters. Floods also serve as a prime breeding site for mosquitoes, which also transmit many vector-borne diseases
- According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are six diseases or health problems in particular that are worth looking out for during floods: typhoid fever, cholera, hepatitis A, malaria, dengue fever, and hypothermia
Typhoid vaccine Phase 3 trial in Nepal
- In Nepal, the typhoid conjugate vaccine has proven to be very effective in protecting against typhoid fever
- The typhoid antibody titers more than quadrupled in the participants that received the typhoid conjugate vaccine
Zac Efron contracted what’s believed to be typhoid fever while filming show in Papua New Guinea
- Zac Efron was hospitalized last week after contracting a bacterial infection, believed to be typhoid fever, in Papua New Guinea
- On Monday, he took to Twitter to say he had “bounced back” from the serious and potentially deadly illness
- Typhoid fever, which is believed to be the infection Efron had, is a potentially life-threatening illness caused by bacteria, according to the CDC
13 suspected typhoid cases hit Glen View
- Typhoid is still endemic in Harare’s Glen View high-density suburb, with another 13 suspected new cases recorded in recent weeks by the City Health Department
- Typhoid is not new to Glen View, where the last outbreak that hit the suburb at the beginning of this year claimed 49 lives, while over 10 000 people were treated and discharged
P&O liner typhoid victim Stuart Balfour from Deal recalls his ordeal 50 years on
- Little did Stuart Balfour know when he boarded the P&O liner Oronsay 50 years ago, that he would be subjecting himself to one of the most frightening experiences of his life
- The 20 year-old Deal lad had left school and dreamed of travelling the world as a fireman in the engine room of the vessel
- But that dream was shattered when he contracted typhoid and was forced into quarantine for five days before spending four weeks and a day in Vancouver General Hospital
A water purifier for remote areas
- Data by the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI) and ministry of health and family welfare indicated that 2,439 persons died in India in 2018 due to water borne diseases – cholera, acute diarrhea, typhoid and viral hepatitis
- A team of researchers at IIT Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn) has prepared surface-engineered particles (SEP) to arrest bacteria from microbe contaminated water
Typhoid vaccine to be made part of routine immunisation programme
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has started preparations to include typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) in its routine immunisation programme as part of the government’s plan to protect people against the vaccine-preventable disease
- The WHO has issued formal recommendation in support of TCV’s introduction in March 2018 to put brakes on deaths caused by typhoid
- Dr Salim said that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government had planned to improve water and sanitation services in line with the federal government’s guideline to safeguard children against preventable ailments
Liberia Begins Preparation for Typhoid Vaccine
- Monrovia – Liberia has begun massively preparing to launch the typhoid conjugate Vaccine come early next year, according to information from the Ministry of Health
- According to the Health Ministry’s Communications Consultant, Mr. Sorbor George, topics for the preparation include Data Analysis, Problems Identifications, Vaccine Forecast, among others
- George stated that a study conducted by the Global Burden of Disease estimates that Liberia recorded over 7000 typhoid cases in 2017
Typhoid vaccine ‘works fantastically well’
- Experts said the vaccine was a game-changer and would reduce the “terrible toll wrought by typhoid”
- More than 20,000 children – aged from nine months to 16 years – in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, took part in the trial
- Half of the children were given the vaccine and their cases of typhoid fell by 81% in the first year of the study
New typhoid fever vaccine protects young children
- The test in Nepal “provides the first evidence of the level of impact and the potential for improving the health of children in some of these very vulnerable populations around the world”
- The vaccine, known as TCV, has already been endorsed by the World Health Organization’s Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety based in part on earlier tests at Oxford
