Do you remember the story of Typhoid Mary – the cook who spread typhoid to as many as 100 people in the early 1900s even though she herself showed no symptoms? She was confined to isolation for 26 ...

The first known epidemic of extensively drug-resistant typhoid is spreading through Pakistan, infecting at least 850 people in 14 districts since 2016, according to the National Institute of Health ...

Typhoid, dengue, and common viral fevers share early symptoms like fever and body aches, but differ in cause and severity. Typhoid and dengue can lead to serious complications if untreated, while ...

There is a high burden of typhoid fever in sub-Saharan African countries, according to a new study published today in The Lancet Global Health. This high burden combined with the threat of typhoid ...

While largely eliminated in more affluent nations, typhoid remains a deadly scourge in developing countries, killing more than 110,000 children every year. Children in endemic areas -- mainly ...

In a rare occurrence of locally acquired typhoid fever in Canada, health officials in Ottawa recently traced an outbreak back to a chronic Salmonella Typhi carrier working as a food handler. The ...

Randomized controlled trials among children in Asia and Africa have revealed a high short-term efficacy of typhoid conjugate vaccines; however, few studies have analyzed the persistence of protection ...