When most people hear "typhoid", they think of the high fever, stomach pain and a few weeks off work. But for many in India, the story doesn't end at the six-week mark. For Debanish Achom (Senior ...

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A few weeks ago, a young nursing student from Bangalore was admitted to our hospital with high fever, body aches, and severe weakness. The diagnosis was typhoid ( also called Enteric fever), which is ...

Even as COVID-19 continues its rampage across the globe, an older health nemesis continues a more clandestine and increasingly deadly spread. Typhoid infects an estimated 11 million people a year and ...

Mary Mallon, here in the foreground, never contracted typhoid herself but was responsible for spreading the disease No-one ever thought we'd see a time when every news bulletin and website in the ...

An ancient disease that rides in dirty water is quietly reinventing itself as a modern superbug. Typhoid fever, long pushed to the margins of public attention in richer countries, is evolving fast and ...

A new vaccine against salmonella and typhoid moves closer to approval, according to results of a clinical trial published by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine Oct. 8. “These ...

Do you remember the story of Typhoid Mary – the cook who spread typhoid to as many as 100 people in the early 1900s even though she herself showed no symptoms? She was confined to isolation for 26 ...