Monsoon-related flooding may lead to increased risk of waterborne diseases, such as typhoid, cholera, diarrhoea, stomach Infections, etc. And the germs that can cause these diseases may be present ...

When she tested positive for typhoid bacteria, the Department of Health forcibly moved her to North Brother Island, a dot of land in the East River just off the Bronx that housed a quarantine ...

A colleague called me for advice about a patient who recently underwent abdominal surgery for intestinal perforation. She ...

The bacteria behind an ongoing outbreak of typhoid fever in Pakistan is a strain of Salmonella enterica that has become resistant to multiple antibiotic treatments by acquiring new DNA, according to a ...

One way is to expose the pathogen to heat. This is how the bacteria in the typhoid vaccine is inactivated. Another way is to use radiation. For the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk in 1954 ...

Background: Although enteric fever (typhoid and paratyphoid fevers) is a major global public health problem, comparable data on the risks of contracting travel-associated enteric fever in various ...

Summer brings fun and sunshine, but it also raises the risk of seasonal illnesses in children. Here’s how parents can keep ...

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. Malaria and typhoid have ...

Both typhoid and paratyphoid are bacterial infections that primarily cause intestinal infections. However, there are many differences between the two. The bacteria that spread these infections are ...