Pakistan launches typhoid conjugate vaccine

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  • The government of Pakistan has become the first country to approve the nationwide rollout of a typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) following new evidence of the spread of an unusual typhoid strain which is extensively resistant to antibiotics
  • “For too long, typhoid, which invariably affects the world’s poorest people, has been neglected in efforts to improve global health,” said Dr Anita Zaidi, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation