About 15% of patients with typhoid fever develop serious neurological complications, including delirium and seizures, that are collectively described as acute encephalopathy. Until now, however, ...
A major typhoid outbreak has been reported across India, with cities like Gandhinagar, Greater Noida and Hyderabad affected due to contaminated water supplies and infrastructure failures.
Malaria is transmitted through bites from infected mosquitoes, while typhoid is caused by Salmonella typhi, a gramme-negative salmonella bacterium, through ingestion of contaminated food and drinks.
Typhoid can strike even if you drink clean or RO water. Doctors warn that the infection often spreads through contaminated food, poor hand hygiene, or contact with infected surfaces. Caused by ...
A medic from Mater Hospital administers the typhoid vaccine to a child during the wellness clinic in Buruburu, Nairobi, on July 13, 2025. The campaign for mass vaccination for typhoid and measles ends ...
Dr Paul Lartey of the Chosen Hospital in Tetegu has warned that lifestyle-related illnesses are now causing more deaths than infectious diseases such as malaria, typhoid, and pneumonia.
Just as Nepal was recovering from the Covid pandemic in 2022, the government with GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, inoculated almost 8 million school-children against typhoid. What was even more remarkable ...