Warders and inmates at Daru prison diagnosed with typhoid and malaria are calling on Papua New Guinea authorities to move them out immediately Daru prison’s acting commander among eleven staff ...
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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 ...
Read moreA retrospective study of patients with blood culture-confirmed typhoid fever in Fiji during 2014–2015: epidemiology, clinical features, treatment and outcome
AUTHORS S AG, Parry CM, Crump JA, Rosa V, Jenney A, Naidu R, Mulholland K, Strugnell RA ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Typhoid fever is endemic in Fiji. We sought to describe the ...
Read moreUsing hospital-based studies of community-acquired bloodstream infections to make inferences about typhoid fever incidence
AUTHORS Marchello CS, Dale AP, Pisharody S, Crump JA ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES: Hospital-based studies of community-acquired bloodstream infections (CA-BSI) are less resource-intensive to carry out than population-based incidence studies. We examined ...
Read moreOvarian abscess caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi: a case report
AUTHORS Aneley Getahun S., Josese Limaono, Raween Ligaitukana, Orisi Cabenatabua, Vika Soqo, Raape Diege, Mikaele Mua ABSTRACT A 14-year-old iTaukei (indigenous Fijian) girl presented to our hospital with abdominal pain ...
Read moreFirst case of extensively drug-resistant typhoid reported in Australia
Australia’s first case of extensively drug-resistant typhoid has been confirmed in a 20-month-old girl, who was taken to hospital suffering with high fever and vomiting Dr Philip Britton from the ...
Read moreClimate change on the agenda at Pacific health ministers’ meeting
The Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt heads to French Polynesia next week, becoming Australia’s first minister to visit the islands in more than 20 years. He’s travelling to meet other ...
Read moreEnvironmental Foundations of Typhoid Fever in the Fijian Residential Setting.
AUTHORS Aaron P. Jenkins, Stacy D. Jupiter, Adam Jenney, Varanisese Rosa, Alanieta Naucukidi, Namrata Prasad, Gandercillar Vosaki, Kim Mulholland, Richard Strugnell, Mike Kama, John A. Crump and Pierre Horwitz ABSTRACT ...
Read moreTyphoid fever cases grow on Manus Island
Two more refugees detained by Australia on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island have been diagnosed with typhoid fever. The men from India and Bangladesh were flown to Port Moresby on ...
Read moreTyphoid fever strikes Manus Island refugees
An outbreak of typhoid fever has struck refugees detained by Australia on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island. Suspected cases of the illness are affecting men in all three refugee detention ...
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