Zimbabwe: 76% Typhoid Cases Reported in Harare - Report
[The Herald] Lloyd Gumbo and Innocent Ruwende -Harare City Council has contributed 76 percent of the overall typhoid cases countrywide with two deaths, 126 suspected and 12 confirmed cases, it has been learnt. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 4, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Zimbabwe: 2 160 Typhoid Cases Reported Nationally
[The Herald] Harare City Council has confirmed four cases of typhoid in Mbare, as it also emerged yesterday that 2 160 suspected cases were reported countrywide this year with authorities confirming 77 cases and seven deaths as of December 18. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 30, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Zimbabwe: Harare City Battling Typhoid, Struggles to Collect Garbage
[The Herald] Harare City Council, which is battling to contain a typhoid outbreak, is struggling to collect garbage as it emerged that 25 out of its 48 refuse trucks are down due to fuel shortages and mechanical faults. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 30, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Zimbabwe: Typhoid Under Control - Minister
[The Herald] Government says the typhoid outbreak that hit Mbare, Harare, in the last few days is now under control, but urged all residents to be vigilant as they remain under threat of contracting the water-borne disease.This follows the death of 13-year-old Ivy Makwara, who succumbed to suspected typhoid on Christmas Day. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 29, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Zimbabwe: Typhoid Kills One, Nine Hospitalised
[The Herald] A suspected typhoid outbreak is feared to have hit Harare amid reports that one person has died so far, while nine others have been hospitalised. Thirty more people have been treated and discharged. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 28, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Zimbabwe: Teen's Mum Speaks Out
[The Herald] The grieving mother of Ivy Makwara, the 13-year-old Mbare girl, who died of suspected typhoid on Christmas Day, yesterday poured out her heart out saying she had placed all her hopes on her daughter. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 28, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news

The case of the desperately ill spy and the untraceable poison
It sounds like the stuff of Bond films, but 10 years ago the tragic case of ‘Edwin Carter’ presented doctors and police with exactly this scenarioOn the afternoon of 3 November 2006 Edwin Carter arrived at Barnet Hospital, London, in an ambulance. He was vomiting, had bloody diarrhoea, and was in a lot of pain. He had been like this for two days. His own doctor said it looked like typhoid, but it wasn ’t typhoid. Staff at the hospital diagnosed gastroenteritis and started a course of antibiotics.The man ’s condition improved slightly, but there were puzzling discrepancies in his lab results. Someone suffering from ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 30, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Kathryn Harkup Tags: Forensic science Alexander Litvinenko Source Type: news

International consortium receives $36.9 million grant to fight typhoid
(University of Maryland School of Medicine) Typhoid fever remains a serious global problem: it kills almost a quarter of a million people annually. To help promote typhoid vaccines, the Bill& Melinda Gates Foundation has given a $36.9 million grant to the University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development. The project is a partnership with the Oxford Vaccine Group and PATH. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 10, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Vivotif Oral (Typhoid Vaccine) - updated on RxList
(Source: RxList - New and Updated Drug Monographs)
Source: RxList - New and Updated Drug Monographs - September 8, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news

Sudan: Disease Rife in North Darfur Camps
[Radio Dabanga] Sortony -The rainy season in North Darfur has heralded new outbreaks of malaria, typhoid, and jaundice malaria among the displaced. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 5, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Food Safety Issues Rise in Colombo
By Editor, Sunday Times, Sri LankaAug 8 2016 (The Sunday Times - Sri Lanka)This newspaper’s News Desk has been following up on Public Health issues for some time, and their ongoing reports should raise concerns among Colombo residents, both the affluent, and the not-so, because of the declining standards in the monitoring of food establishments, from the humble ‘buth kades’ to the restaurants of five-star hotels. There is a lot of debate about the delay in holding Local Government elections and whether the representatives of the country’s Municipalities, Urban Councils and Praadeshiya Sabhas should be elected under...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 8, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Editor sunday Tags: Asia-Pacific Global Governance Headlines Health Water & Sanitation Source Type: news

The 8 Things Your Health Insurance DOESN'T Cover
Whether you’re looking to choose a new health insurance policy, going on Medicare, or are unsure of the details of your current health plan, there are several services that you may think are covered but in actuality they’re not. Knowing in advance what services you’re going to have to pay for can help you make smart health choices. First, How to Get Coverage If your employer offers health insurance, you’re generally all set. But if you’re leaving your employer or find yourself recently without health insurance (and are not Medicare age), here are your health insurance coverage options: COBRA ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Malawi: Nurses College Sends 200 Students Home As Typhoid Fever Hits
[Nyasa Times] Over 200 nursing students at St Lukes Nursing College at Malosa in Zomba have been sent home following the outbreak of typhoid fever at the college. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 13, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Typhoid Fever From an Asymptomatic Carrier at a RestaurantTyphoid Fever From an Asymptomatic Carrier at a Restaurant
This outbreak of typhoid fever in restaurant patrons highlights the potential for chronic S. typhi carriers to cause illness in other persons, even many years after infection. Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - July 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases Journal Article Source Type: news

$2.3M grant funds app creation to diagnose diseases
(Cornell University) The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering has awarded to Cornell University a four-year, $2.3 million grant to develop FeverPhone, which will diagnose six febrile diseases in the field: dengue, malaria, chikungunya, typhoid fever, leptospirosis and Chagas' disease. Faculty members David Erickson and Saurabh Mehta will lead the team. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 23, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news