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  • Pakistan: 2021/2022 Typhoid

    Source: https://www.geo.tv/latest/388755-hea...rge-in-typhoid




    Health experts link typhoid surge to lack of immunisation in Sindh
    Monday Dec 20 2021
    Khawar Khan
    Number of people infected with infectious diseases is soaring across Sindh.
    An estimated 174,818 children have been infected with typhoid this year in the province.
    Naushero Feroze reported the highest number of typhoid cases this year.

    Typhoid infection cases are increasing exponentially across Sindh, including Karachi, possibly due to a large number of children who are still not immunised against the infection, health experts told Geo News.

    This year, an estimated 174,818 children were infected with typhoid across Sindh, with 15 children losing their lives to the infection...



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      Source: https://www.dawn.com/news/1695144/ca...-alarming-rate


      Cases of typhoid fever rising at alarming rate
      Ashfaq Yusufzai Published June 17, 2022 - Updated about 9 hours ago

      PESHAWAR: Health experts have said that unsanitary conditions, lack of proper waste disposal, contamination of water by sewage, shortage of clean drinking water and public ignorance are main causes of rise in cases of typhoid fever.

      “We will go 100 years back when typhoid would kill 40 per cent of the infected people. It used to be the case prior to invention of antibiotic but now despite of so many antibiotics we would be left with no effective antibiotic against the disease,” Prof Mohammad Noor Wazir of Hayatabad Medical Complex told Dawn...

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