AUTHOR Julii Brainard, Rob D’hondt, Engy Ali, Rafael Van den Bergh, Anja De Weggheleire, Yves Baudot, Frederic Patigny, Vincent Lambert, Rony Zachariah, Peter Maes, Donat Kuma-Kuma Kenge, Paul R. Hunter. ...
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Community-based prevalence of typhoid fever, typhus, brucellosis and malaria among symptomatic individuals in Afar Region, Ethiopia
AUTHOR Biruk Zerfu, Girmay Medhin, Gezahegne Mamo, Gezahegn Getahun, Rea Tschopp, Mengistu Legesse. ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: In sub-Saharan Africa, where there is the scarcity of proper diagnostic tools, febrile illness related ...
Read moreHealth risk perceptions and local knowledge of water-related infectious disease exposure among Kenyan wetland communities
AUTHOR Carmen Anthonj, Bernd Diekkrüger, Christian Borgemeister, Thomas Kistemann. ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: Risk perceptions have the potential of motivating and shaping health-related behaviour, i.e. the application of protective health measures. We ...
Read moreTyphoid fever: clinical presentation and associated factors in febrile patients visiting Shashemene Referral Hospital, southern Ethiopia.
AUTHOR Habte L, Tadesse E, Ferede G, Amsalu A. ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: Although typhoid fever is a major public health problem in Ethiopia, data is not available in the study area. ...
Read moreTyphoid conjugate vaccines: a new tool in the fight against antimicrobial resistance
AUTHOR Jason R Andrews, MD, Prof Stephen Baker, PhD, Florian Marks, PhD, Marcella Alsan, MD, Denise Garrett, MD, Bruce Gellin, MD, et al SUMMARY Typhoid fever is an acute systemic infectious disease responsible for ...
Read moreGweru typhoid death toll rises
Seven fatalities due to typhoid have now been reported in Gweru, with suspicions that the actual number may be higher
Read moreFive killed, 350 hospitalized as typhoid outbreak spreads in Zimbabwe
Since the first case of typhoid in Gweru was reported on July 23, 350 people have tested positive and five have died, with all parts of the city now affected ...
Read moreTyphoid: Kwekwe springs to action
The city of Kwekwe has activated a health task force in response to a typhoid outbreak in the nearby city of Gweru; no cases have been reported yet and tests ...
Read moreTyphoid kills 5 in Mkoba
Five deaths have been reported in a suspected typhoid outbreak in a suburb of Gweru City in Zimbabwe
Read moreTyphoid outbreak hits Gweru
The city of Gweru in Zimbabwe has declared an outbreak of typhoid in three Mkoba suburbs linked to contaminated boreholes; authorities have set up a treatment camp and are urging ...
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