Pakistan Is Racing to Combat the World’s First Extensively Drug-Resistant Typhoid Outbreak

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  • Infectious disease experts say Pakistan is in the grip of the world’s first outbreak of XDR typhoid, and they suspect the country’s abysmal sewage and water systems are the root cause for its spread
  • The typhoid vaccination effort has been underway for a little over a month, but rumors are circulating that the vaccine is part of a foreign plot to poison Pakistan’s children, and vaccinators face refusals almost every day