Typhoid in Medical News

Gatifloxacin Very Effective for Typhoid Treatment

Nepalese researchers identify cost-effective treatment for drug-resistant typhoid. Researchers has shown that a new and affordable drug, Gatifloxacin, may be more effective at treating typhoid fever than the drug currently recommended by the World Health Organisation. Enteric fever, of which...

Food Outlets Not to Blame for Typhoid Cases

It now appears that food outlets in the South Auckland suburb of Clendon are not the source of a typhoid outbreak in the area//. Earlier this month health officials investigated four retailers for links to several cases of the disease but tests on 26 workers came up negative. Dr Greg Si...

Chhattisgarh Malaria And Typhoid

Malaria and typhoid have claimed 10 lives while over 3,000 people were suffering from the diseases in Surguja district of Chhattisgarh, a government officer said Friday//. "Nearly 3,000 tribal people in Ramchandrapur, Ramanujganj and Wadrafnagar blocks in Surguja district have been in the grip...

Nepal Develops More Effective Drug for Typhoid

A team of Nepalese doctors has developed a drug that is more effective in getting rid of typhoid fever, local media reported Friday . The drug also costs less than the one recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), reported The Himalayan Times daily.Doctors at the Patan Hospital he...

Nepalese Researchers Identify New Treatment for Drug-resistant Typhoid

Nepalese researchers have established that the affordable drug, Gatifloxacin, is a better treatment for drug- resistant typhoid. The study was conducted by a team of researchers led by Dr Buddha Basnyat at Patan Hospital Lalitpur in Kathmandu, Nepal. As part of the study, researche...

USAID World Water Day Statement

... hygiene in developing countries. Millions more were put at significant risk of exposure to life-threatening water-borne infections, such as cholera, typhoid fever and dysentery. Contaminated drinking water is a threat to people living with HIV/AIDS whose bodies have little ability to fight off infections t...

Study shows how Salmonella survives in environment

...tures that can contaminate almost any food type, causing diarrhoea, abdominal pain and fever. Scientists know that Salmonella which can also cause typhoid fever has evolved unique mechanisms to prevent the body's immune system from functioning effectively, but until now it was not understood how it surv...

How much is the world spending on neglected disease research and development?

...fections received 2%; and bacterial pneumonia and meningitis received only 1.3%. Five diseases - leprosy, Buruli ulcer, trachoma, rheumatic fever, and typhoid and paratyphoid fever each received less than $10 million or 0.4% of total global investment. For many of these diseases, funding was not enough to c...

Consider Kids' Health on Tropical Trips

...m exposure to contaminated food and water, and disease carrying insects. With the help of available destination-specific vaccines such as hepatitis A, typhoid fever and yellow fever, parents can feel more comfortable traveling with young children," Dr. Andrea Summer, an associate professor of pediatrics at M...

15 human genomes each week

...leagues in Vietnam and Kathmandu, we are using this new technology to uncover the fine variation that will enable us to understand the transmission of typhoid fever in South-East Asia, and with colleagues in the UK we will be able to investigate how MRSA and Cdiff spread in our hospitals." Raw data is pro...

Passport Health Disaster Response Experts Offer Services to Myanmar Volunteers

...rways that crisscross the Irrawaddy delta are crammed with dead bodies and animal carcasses. Vaccines for food and water diseases like Hepatitis A and typhoid are protective and available. Oral rehydration packets are available for cholera treatment and Passport Health will donate packets to all relief worke...

ACC Observes National Drinking Water Week

...achievements in U.S. history. Harvard University research suggests that, in the early 20th century, drinking water filtration and chlorination reduced typhoid fever death rates by more than 90 percent and childhood mortality by more than 50 percent in major U.S. cities.(1) One hundred years after its deb...

Children's Safe Drinking Water Program Provides One Billionth Liter of Clean Water

... work with our partners to provide billions more liters of clean drinking water and help address the crisis of children dying needlessly from cholera, typhoid fever, and dysentery." Mr. Pepper was joined by the First lady of Oyo State, Nigeria, Mrs. Kemi Alao Akala, who strongly endorsed the efforts to hel...

The Homeopathic Revolution

...iterary Greats, Pages 70-71) -- Richard Wagner - (composer and conductor), typhoid (saved his life) (Chapter 7: Musicians, Pages 159-160) -- General Geo...rge B. McClellan - (head of the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War), typhoid (Chapter 9: Politicians and Peacemakers, Pages 184-185) -- Benjamin D...

New Bacterium Discovered - Related to Cause of Trench Fever

...ed at UCSF from a patient who had been on an international vacation. The woman, who has since recovered, suffered from symptoms similar to malaria or typhoid fever, two infections that can occur in returning travelers. But genetic detective work revealed that she was infected with a new bacterium th...

FDA and CDC Remind Consumers of the Dangers of Drinking Raw Milk

...lk to a specific temperature for a set period of time, kills bacteria responsible for diseases such as listeriosis, salmonellosis, campylobacteriosis, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, diphtheria and brucellosis. FDA's pasteurization requirement also applies to other milk products, with the exception of a few ag...

Typhoid Outbreak Linked to Samoa

... An outbreak of typhoid in Porirua is not linked to a cluster of cases in ... month.// Three people have been treated for typhoid in Porirua and those cases were linked to each oth...our Pacific health networks that there is a lot of typhoid in Samoa, so travellers going to Samoa have to be ...

Indian Scientists Develop Dipstick Test for Dengue

...ow much the dipstick will cost commercially, and say that further testing of how the dipstick works if a patient has another viral infection — such as typhoid or malaria — is necessary. Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease affecting several tropical and subtropical regions of the world. It causes an ...

Severe Cold is Harbinger of Infections

...is heavy fog and no sun. The virus cannot multiply when there is good sunlight." However, the other diseases that plague children like jaundice, typhoid and gastroenteritis are lessas those viruses don't multiply in winter. According to P.K. Mukherjee, a senior private physician, a major reason f...

Hindustan Latex To Market Vaccines

.... Initially, HLL is planning to start marketing vaccines - Hepatitis-B and typhoid vaccines produced by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech International Ltd. ... TYFEX is a highly purified Vi Capsular Polysaccharide new generation typhoid vaccine. This marketing initiative is part of HLL's comprehensive plan...

Delhi Government Clears Healthcare Projects Worth Rs.1.13 bn

...sured that no equipment remains idle after the institute is commissioned, the minister said in a statement. The EFC has also allowed purchase of typhoid vaccines and related items worth Rs.12.8 million that will help curb mortality among children in the age group of 2 to 5, the minister said. For...

Maharashtra warns against Mahim's 'miracle' water

... an exceptionally low chloride content will increase the risk of diarrhoea, typhoid and other maladies. "Exceptionally low chloride content supports the ...dustrial effluents, drinking the water will increase the risk of diarrhoea, typhoid and other infections," said Tannu Singal, an expert on infectious diseases ...

Maoist Leader-Turned Social Activist Passes Away

... A Maoist rebel turned social activist, Dr. Vinayan, who was suffering from typhoid and malaria, passed away on Friday night in a government hospital //. He was brought to the hospital from a village in Jehanabad district for treatme...

Typhoid May Have Resulted In The Fall Of Athens

... burial pits of ancient Athens has revealed that a typhoid epidemic may have caused large-scale devastation t... strain of today’s salmonella, which gives rise to typhoid appear to be very close. Sparta is reported to hav...s, as a result of contaminated water and food. The typhoid fever today is caused by the Salmonella enterica s...

US Reportedly Experimenting on Nepali Soldiers

... same Walter Reed Army Institute of Research sponsored the development of a typhoid vaccine in Nepal. However, though typhoid is endemic in Nepal, one of the poorest countries in the world, the vaccine...

Sharp Increase Of The Deadly Diseases In Delhi

...tients suffering from microbial infections. // Doctors warn there's going to be a sharp increase in deadly diseases like hepatitis E, meningitis, typhoid and malaria. Since wet weather is conducive for most microbes, those transmitted by oro-nasal routes and through people-to-people contact usually have...

Water Borne Diseases causing More Havoc in Mumbai

...g communicable diseases: Water-borne diseases: typhoid fever, cholera, leptospirosis and hepatitis A ...e infection. Read More... Enteric fever: typhoid or 'enteric fever' is caused by infection with 'sa...and traced. She is fondly remembered by the name “ typhoid Mary” for being an immune carrier (no sympto...

Epidemic Fear In Mumbai Mounting Post-Floods

... // last month's floods. Over 1,000 patients had been admitted to various Mumbai hospitals with complications arising from leptospirosis, dengue, typhoid and hepatitis. All government hospitals in this city of over 15 million people had been put on alert to give priority to cases of fever. The out...