Typhoid fever led to the fall of Athens
Scientists have for many years debated the cause of the Plague of Athens. Analysis carried out by Manolis Papagrigorakis and colleagues using DNA collected from teeth from an ancient Greek burial pit points to typhoid fever as the disease responsible for this devastating epidemic. The study appears on the online version of The International Journal of Infectious Diseases (IJID) published by Elsev...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 of malaria and typhoid. The region has reported 10 deaths during the past three days," the di...Typhoid May Have Resulted In The Fall Of Athens
A DNA study conducted at the burial pits of ancient Athens has revealed that a typhoid epidemic may have caused large-scale devastation to the city. The Golden Age of Athens is also reported to have declined as a result of this // epidemic, which is said to have wiped out a third of the city-state’s population. The origins of the epidemic was in Ethiopia, between 430-426 BC, which later spread to...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 Simmons of the Auckland Regional Public Health Service says based on what he has seen, it...Typhoid Outbreak Linked to Samoa
An outbreak of typhoid in Porirua is not linked to a cluster of cases in Clendon, South Auckland, last month.// Three people have been treated for typhoid in Porirua and those cases were linked to each other, Dr Annette Nesdale, medical officer of health, regional public health, Wellington, said last night. She said regional public health was investigating the outbreak whi...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 typhoid fever is the most common form, is a major disease affecting the developing world, whe...Avant’s Typhoid Fever Vaccine Demonstrates Excellent Clinical Potential
Single-Dose Oral Ty800 Vaccine Immunogenic & Well-Toleratedin NIH-Sponsored Phase 1/2 Study NEEDHAM, MA (May 18, 2007) - AVANT Immunotherapeutics, Inc.(Nasdaq: AVAN) announced today positive preliminary results from aninvestigational double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 1/2dose-escalating clinical trial of its typhoid fever vaccinecandidate, Ty800, in healthy volunteers. The...Avant's Typhoid Fever Vaccine Demonstrates Excellent Clinical Potential
NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2007 - AVANTImmunotherapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: AVAN) announced today positivepreliminary results from an investigational double-blind,placebo-controlled Phase 1/2 dose-escalating clinical trial of itstyphoid fever vaccine candidate, Ty800, in healthy volunteers. Theresearchers found the single-dose, oral vaccine to be welltolerated and immunogenic, wi...