Typhoid News
Avoid Any Unnecessary Movement, Rainima Warns On Typhoid
- There are six confirmed cases of typhoid in the Northern Division
- Cases from a non-red spot area were because there had been a lot of movement from place to places during the festive season
Anti-typhoid Staff Trained To Monitor The Drive From Feb 1
- Around 226 area Incharges have been trained with the coordinated efforts of UNICEF to monitor the two-week-long anti-typhoid vaccination campaign that would be launched in urban areas of district from February 1 to 15
- Over 18,76,539 children from nine months to 15 years of age would be vaccinated under the Typhoid Prevention Campaign
TC Yasa: Typhoid cases emerge
- Movement of people into cyclone-affected areas is being discouraged after two reports of typhoid cases on Vanua Levu
- Though these cases are not related to STC Yasa, Minister for Health and Medical Services, Dr Ifereimi Waqainabete believes preventative measures should be followed to prevent any outbreaks
Graphic Era University’s Technology For Screening Typhoid Gets Government Patent
- The Government of India has registered a patent for the invention of a technology to screen typhoid
- The invention provides a PCR-based diagnostic assay for detection of Typhoid-causing bacteria with higher sensitivity and specificity and is expected to screen Typhoid at a low cost
Neno typhoid outbreak
- At least five people have died from typhoid fever in Neno District
- Neno District Hospital spokesperson Caroline Banda said, apart from registering five cases of death, health officials recorded 56 cases of suspects
IVI-SK’s new typhoid conjugate vaccine meets primary endpoints in phase III study in Nepal
- Vi-DT typhoid conjugate vaccine, developed jointly by the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and SK bioscience, has met the primary endpoints in a phase III study in Nepal
- This study is a significant milestone in an effort to license Vi-DT TCV
Covid fatalities on the rise; dengue, typhoid also spread tentacles
- Along with a steep hike in the number of Covid-19 cases, the cases of dengue and typhoid are also on the rise. The health experts have advised the people to take the necessary precautions and avoid visiting markets or other crowded public places
- A considerable number of typhoid cases is being reported from Rohtak and nearby areas, though the record of the typhoid cases was not available with the local Health authorities
Typhoid fever strikes inmates at labor camp in N. Pyongan Province
- Authorities at a forced labor camp in Dongrim County, North Pyongan Province, have recently suspended family visits and banned outside food from being sent into the camp after an outbreak of paratyphoid and typhoid fever among some of the facility’s inmates, Daily NK has learned
- “In mid-September, more than 20 patients with paratyphoid and typhoid fever appeared at a forced labor camp in Dongrim County,” a source in North Pyongan Province told the Daily NK on Monday
- “The Ministry of Social Security, provincial security bureau, county party committee and county Ministry of Social Security office helped mobilize the local anti-epidemic office and capable doctors to deal with the situation.”
Typhoid: Study confirms Vi-DT conjugate vaccine is safe and immunogenic in children 6-23 months
- A new study conducted by IVI in collaboration with SK bioscience shows that single-dose and two-dose regimens of Vi-DT typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) are safe and immunogenic in children 6-23 months of age, a group with high rates of typhoid fever in resource-limited settings
- The findings from this study newly published online in The Lancet’s EClinicalMedicine describe the successful completion and analysis of a Phase II clinical trial of Vi-DT six months after vaccination
Dying for a sip of clean water in Zimbabwe
- In 2018, a twin cholera and typhoid outbreak hit Zimbabwe’s capital claimed 69 lives and over 10,000 people were affected by the diseases, highlighting the dangers of Harare’s dilapidated water-supply system
- A municipal water system that was built to cater for 300 000 residents in the days of pre-independence Rhodesia must now meet the needs of 2,5 million people
Council contains typhoid, dysentery outbreak
- BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) says it has contained the typhoid and dysentery outbreak that infected nearly 2 000 people and killed 13 in Luveve and surrounding suburbs recently
- In June there was a diarrhoea outbreak in Luveve and surrounding areas which Government attributed to the 144-hour weekly water shedding exercise
- Following the outbreak, Local Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo said human waste beyond the standards allowed by the Standards Association of Zimbabwe (SAZ) contaminated water pipes in Luveve areas, triggering the water-borne diseases
Preschoolers, caregivers highly vulnerable to XDR typhoid
- Preschoolers aged 3-5 are highly vulnerable to typhoid fever, including drug-resistant typhoid
- In an advisory, the NIH, the country’s leading medical research centre, said typhoid fever was endemic in the country
- The NIH said with the treatment options for typhoid becoming more limited, preventive measures, including improved sanitation and vaccination campaigns, were urgently needed
Typhoid fever in Nigeria not too common as believed — Commissioner
- The Commissioner for Health in Anambra, Dr Vincent Okpala, says Typhoid fever in Nigeria is not as common as it has been made to be
- Okpala told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Monday that the Widal test used in the country to diagnose Typhoid fever would not give accurate diagnosis for the fever
- He said there was need for renewed scrutiny and adherence to diagnosis guidelines by healthcare practitioners in the country
NIH issues advisory to control, treat typhoid
- The National Institute of Health (NIH) has issued an advisory to all provincial health departments to take prevention and treatment measures to control typhoid fever during summer and monsoon season
- Since the emergence of COVID-19, it has been observed that health care professionals are frequently prescribing azithromycin for the COVID-19 patients may develop resistance against azithromycin
Zimbabwe: Typhoid Outbreak in Harare’s Sunningdale Suburb
- Harare’s Sunningdale suburb has been hit by a typhoid outbreak after recording nine cases
- The cases were confirmed by Ward 10 Councillor Hammy Madzingira who attributed the outbreak to continuous sewer bursts in the surburb
Abbott partners with Babygogo to conduct survey on awareness around typhoid fever
- Abbott partnered with Babygogo (part of the Sheroes Network), to conduct a nationwide survey across eight cities* to assess awareness around typhoid fever
- There are higher levels of awareness for mandatory vaccines, ie., vaccines given in National Immunisation Programme of the country (NIP) such as rotavirus (82 per cent) compared to vaccines not given in NIP such as influensa (67 per cent) and typhoid (66 per cent)
After Covid-19, Typhoid rears head in K-P
- The ongoing health crisis in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa appears to be compounded by the surge in Typhoid fever cases
- Dr. Fazlur Rehman, who has served at a known testing facility, for more than two decades, said medical practitioners must urge patients to get a blood culture when symptoms surface
Typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever and the emergence of XDR typhoid fever
- Typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever are clinically indistinguishable and produce the syndrome known as enteric fever
- The recent development of large outbreaks (thousands of cases) of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid fever in Pakistan has complicated the approach to the treatment of typhoid fever
Typhoid conjugate vaccine safe, effective when administered with meningococcal A
- Typhoid conjugate vaccine is safe and effective in children when given with meningococcal A vaccine as part of routine immunization
- Findings were presented during the 2020 Virtual Annual Conference on Vaccinology Research sponsored by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
Typhoid’s relative may be key to curing disease
- Song and her team discovered that typhoid’s close cousin, salmonella Javiana, invades and infects hosts cells in almost the same way, but with much less harmful results
- “Surprisingly,” she said, “we found that two toxins play different roles despite their high similarity.”
