also known as typhoid fever, is an infection caused by the Salmonella typhi bacterium. The infection is life-threatening and ...

In 2012, approximately 122,000 people worldwide died from the measles, a highly contagious disease caused by a virus. Typhoid fever kills around 216,000 people a year. Tuberculosis, an infectious ...

With infectious diseases in mind ... As the era of bacteriology arrives, with major diseases like typhoid and cholera determined to arise from germs, the length and nature of quarantine evolves ...

Today, the name “Typhoid Mary” stands for anyone who callously spreads disease or evil. There’s even a Marvel comic book villain named after her: a female assassin with a vicious temper.

Health experts have warned that many Nigerians who are diagnosed and treated for malaria or typhoid more than 10 times in a year may unknowingly be suffering from a far more serious health condition, ...

Methods: From the Swedish database on notifiable communicable diseases, we retrieved all case records from 1997 to 2003 on typhoid and paratyphoid fevers. The data set was compared with data on ...

The City Health Office (CHO) here issued an advisory on Tuesday regarding increasing cases of typhoid as reported by its ...

Kanpur: District magistrate Jitendra Pratap Singh on Tuesday inaugurated the ‘School Chalo Abhiyan' and Special Communicable ...

As news of a deadly and highly infectious disease spread through ... an approach largely developed to better understand diseases like polio, cholera and typhoid fever as part of global disease ...