Ahmedabad: It's a ticking time bomb. After water contamination triggered a typhoid outbreak in three villages of Bavla taluka of Ahmedabad district, it could well be the turn of 65 more in Sanand taluka alone.

Ahmedabad : For the last two days, primary schoolchildren in remote villages in Barvala taluka, Ahmedabad district, have been getting free typhoid vaccination. This is to ensure that the illness does not disrupt their studies as it does each year.

Zubeda Hameed |Chennai,
Fever, vomitting and diarrhoea are common complaints from the outlying inundated areas as the city lacks clean drinking water
TWO weeks after the cessation of rain, reports of outbreak of diseases are coming from several areas in the city and the suburbs.

London, July 29: Forty-three women who tested positive for the bacterial disease typhoid were locked up in a British asylum for decades between 1907 and 1992 even though they were cured of the disease, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported on Monday. Most of the women died in solitary confinement at the Long Grove asylum in Epsom, in southern England, it said.

Mumbai, July 2 Doctors caution against self-medication, advise immediate medical intervention Besides large number of cases of leptospirosis, dengue, malaria, gastroenteritis and viral fever, doctors across the city are also seeing a small, but significant, surge in typhoid cases. "Pre-monsoons we saw hardly one typhoid case in 15 days. But now we are getting at least two per week apart from the usual viral fever, malaria and sporadic dengue cases,' said Dr Jayesh Lele, a private practitioner in Malad.

ON January 15, the production licences of three vaccine-manufacturing public enterprises under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoH&FW) were cancelled, and they were ordered to suspend production forthwith by the then Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), M.

after the monsoon deluge, Mumbai has witnessed an outbreak of diseases such as malaria, dengue and leptospirosis, taking the death toll to 68 on August 2. The pace at which people are dying is

Typhoid could have caused the fall of the powerful city state during the Peloponnesian wars, says a new study