Classified as a mutant (as in, she could be an X-Man, if she tried) with dissociative identity disorder, or DID, Typhoid Mary has three distinct personalities: Mary Walker, her “real” identity, a ...

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 ...

It’s been a bad week for burritos: On Sunday, Chipotle closed its locations in Portland and Seattle due to an outbreak of e. Coli. Now, it’s come out that a Qdoba employee who unknowingly had typhoid ...

Typhoid fever, also known as enteric fever, is a bacterial infection with the bacterium Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi. It is usually spread through food or drink that has been contaminated with ...

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced plans to begin a nationwide rollout of the typhoid fever vaccine in the coming weeks, with food handlers as the primary target group. The initiative aims ...

If somebody asked you to drink a solution filled with live bacteria that can cause typhoid, you'd probably say ... no. "I think they did a beautiful job," says Myron Levine, the University of Maryland ...

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.

The bacteria that causes typhoid fever is becoming increasingly resistant to common antibiotics used to treat the disease, with resistant strains spreading to hundreds of countries in the past three ...

Bengaluru: Over the past five years, Karnataka consistently recorded a very high number of acute diarrhoeal disease (ADD) and ...

Often,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Typhoid-fever/">typhoid fever</a>&nbsp;is mistaken for malaria. Misdiagnosis leads to the wrong treatment and ...

Typhoid fever is caused by bacteria, Salmonella typhi, which causes a very high fever accompanied by weakness and digestive troubles. Antibiotic treatment is very important, but diet also has a key ...