The largest public hospital for children in Sindh, the National Institute of Child Health in Karachi, has recorded 887 cases of typhoid this year Most presented with fever and test ...
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Untreatable strains of typhoid threaten a global health emergency, experts warn
The disease which causes as many as 21 million cases a year is too often overlooked as a disease of the past, when in fact it is increasingly difficult to ...
Read moreXDR Typhoid Fever Outbreak Confirmed in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Pakistan Travel Alert regarding extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid fever issued by CDC The CDC says people from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, and Australia with a travel history ...
Read moreTaiwan records first case of imported XDR typhoid fever
Taiwan reported its first imported case of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid fever, diagnosed in a patient who recently returned from a visit to Pakistan The patient is now in stable ...
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 moreResearchers tackle biofilm to make salmonella infection less aggressive
Biology researchers at Haifa’s Technion-Israel Institute of Technology say they may have found a way to make salmonella bacterial infections less aggressive by inhibiting the formation of biofilm In their ...
Read more‘Typhoid gaining antibiotic resistance’
In the state, between August 4 and September 1, there have been 4,478 lab-confirmed typhoid fever cases These cases have been rising steadily from 749 between July 29 and August ...
Read moreCDC sounds alarm over deadly drug-resistant salmonella
A deadly strain of salmonella that has sickened more than 250 people may not respond to the antibiotics commonly prescribed to treat the foodborne infection, according to the US Centers ...
Read morePoor waste management making bacteria harder to kill
Birds perched on trees eye piles of uncollected mounds of garbage, the playgrounds of rats scampering in and out of the dirt. To the naked eye, this is the routine ...
Read moreHospitals record ‘unusual’ spurt in cases of typhoid
Hospitals in Gurgaon recorded a high number of cases of typhoid fever in summer months this year, with experts labelling the situation ‘unusual’ as every year, cases start appearing around ...
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