Sabin’s Coalition against Typhoid (CaT) Secretariat recently travelled to Atlanta, Georgia for a series of meetings at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH). ...
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Health Experts Highlight Growing Typhoid Pandemic in Asia
As Outbreaks in the Region Continue to Rise, Global Health Leaders Call for Expanded Immunization Efforts
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Advocating for Greater Typhoid Awareness in SE Asia
Over the past year, there have been serious typhoid outbreaks in Indonesia, the Philippines and India. These outbreaks are in addition to the endemic typhoid burden found in throughout Southeast ...
Read moreControlling the Typhoid Epidemic Plaguing Sub-Saharan Africa
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A Traveler’s Experience with Typhoid Fever
The Coalition against Typhoid (CaT) website now features information about typhoid for travelers. The section includes a traveler’s account of his experience falling ill with typhoid fever and lessons learned ...
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Coalition against Typhoid (CaT) featured in The Lancet
A recent expert meeting on typhoid epidemiological modeling, organized by the Coalition against Typhoid, marks one of the first attempts to jolt governments into action against typhoid fever, a disease ...
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CaT in Action: Fighting Typhoid Fever in Zimbabwe
Harare, Zimbabwe has struggled to control an epidemic of typhoid fever that has affected the metropolitan area since October, 2011. Zimbabwe’s Health Ministry has reported 1,865 cases of typhoid ...
Read moreCaT researcher publishes evidence of unrecognized burden of typhoid in Africa
Last week, Coalition against Typhoid (CaT) member Rob Breiman, M.D. of CDC-Kenya, published findings that rates of typhoid and multi-drug resistant (MDR) typhoid are much higher than previously thought in ...
Read more10 years after typhoid genome sequenced- what is being done to control typhoid fever?
The Coalition against Typhoid fills a critical gap between research and action.
Read moreVIVA Initiative targets typhoid fever in Pakistan and Nepal
This story, by Leon Ochiai and Mohamed Imran Khan, of the International Vaccine Institute (IVI)’s VIVA Initiative, originally appeared in the May 2011 issue of the Global Immunization Newsletters. It describes the progress of ...
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