A new typhoid vaccine works "fantastically well" and is being used to help stop an almost untreatable strain of the infection, doctors say. Cases of the bacterial disease fell by more than 80% in ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), typhoid fever continues to affect between 11 and 20 million people each year and is responsible for between 128,000 and 161,000 deaths each year. The ...

Some people with typhoid fever get a flat rash called rose spots. In people with a light skin tone, the spots appear rose-colored or warm pink. (Photo Credit: Mike Devlin/Science Source) Typhoid fever ...

Typhoid fever is a life-threatening bacterial infection that affects many organs throughout the body. The condition occurs through infection with the bacterium Salmonella Typhi, a relative of the ...

Typhoid fever, an infectious disease caused by the bacteria Salmonella typhi, is common in some developing countries and affects more than 12 million people, annually. Typhoid spreads when people ...

The Salmonella typhi bacterium is the source of the bacterial illness known as typhoid. The illness spreads through contaminated food and water, and it typically takes 1-3 weeks for signs to develop.

Typhoid fever is an infectious disease that’s caused by a species of bacteria called Salmonella typhi. It infects the intestinal tract and can sometimes spread into the bloodstream. Symptoms of ...

THE statements that have recently appeared, both in the general and in the medical press, concerning the communication of typhoid fever through the agency of oysters when eaten raw, make it desirable ...

North Brother Island is a 16.5-acre bump of land jutting out of the East River, 1,500 feet east of 140th Street in the South Bronx and 2,500 feet west of Riker's Island. Once the site of New York City ...

If you find yourself sick with flu-like symptoms, fever and chills, abdominal pain, a rash, and severe confusion, you might have typhus. Or is it typhoid? No wonder you're feeling confused. Until the ...

When Typhoid Mary died in 1938, in medical exile on a tiny New York island, she took untold numbers of Salmonella typhi to her grave. No one knew how the bacteria managed to thrive and not kill her. A ...