According to a \u200b\u200bstudy <\/span>published in The Lancet, the effectiveness of antibiotics for typhoid fever is threatened by the emergence of resistant strains.<\/span><\/p>\n Typhoid fever is a life-threatening infection caused by the bacterium <\/span>Salmonella <\/span><\/i>Typhi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Transmission:<\/b> It is usually spread through contaminated food or water. Once <\/span>Salmonella <\/span><\/i>Typhi bacteria are eaten or drunk, they multiply and spread into the bloodstream.<\/span><\/p>\n Symptoms: <\/b>It includes prolonged fever, fatigue, headache, nausea, abdominal pain, and constipation or diarrhea. Some patients may have a rash. Severe cases may lead to serious complications or even death.<\/span><\/p>\n Treatment: <\/b>Typhoid fever can be treated with antibiotics.<\/span><\/p>\n Cases:<\/b> Typhoid fever causes 11 million infections and more than 100,000 deaths per year. South Asia accounts for 70% of the global disease burden.<\/span><\/p>\n According to this study, bacteria that cause typhoid fever are becoming more and more resistant to some of the most widely used antibiotics.<\/span><\/p>\n The Ministry of Health is considering introducing new typhoid conjugate vaccines into the national immunization program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Note: <\/b>According to a survey conducted at 18 Indian sites during 2016-20, typhoid was found as common as it was two decades ago, especially in urban areas. However, complications and deaths are not common.<\/span><\/p>\n But if the transmission still prevails and resistance develops to commonly used antibiotics, then it is likely that there will be an upsurge in severe cases of Typhoid.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cNew research: Study flags emergence of drug-resistant typhoid strains\u201d<\/b> published in<\/span> Indian Express <\/b>on 22nd June 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? According to a \u200b\u200bstudy published in The Lancet, the effectiveness of antibiotics for typhoid fever is threatened by the emergence of resistant strains. What is Typhoid? Typhoid fever is a life-threatening infection caused by the bacterium Salmonella Typhi.\u00a0 Transmission: It is usually spread through contaminated food or water. Once Salmonella Typhi… Continue reading New research: Study flags emergence of drug-resistant typhoid strains<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-191732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704946568},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Typhoid?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What does the study say about Typhoid?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is the Indian Government doing against Typhoid?<\/b><\/h5>\n