Sentences with phrase «outbreaks of typhoid»

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The UN said it was evaluating humanitarian needs in the country and that «contingency plans are being put in place to mitigate any potential outbreak of waterborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid and diarrhoea», according to spokesman Stephane Dujarric.

Concurrent infections of typhoid and Shigella dysentery have complicated tracking the outbreak, according to Pierre Rollin, a virologist with the Centers for Disease Control, which responded to the outbreak, along with the local ministry of health, the WHO, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and Doctors Without Borders.

In better years, the semitropical heat and aboveground sewage system led to outbreaks of cholera and typhoid so severe that gravediggers, unable to keep up, left hundreds of corpses to rot in the streets.

This is the first time we have seen an outbreak of extensively drug - resistant typhoid.»

Currently there is an outbreak of extensively drug resistant (XDR) typhoid spreading through the region

Sporadic cases of typhoid with these levels of antimicrobial resistance have been seen before, but this is the first time we've seen an ongoing outbreak — which is concerning.»

This study shows the typhoid strain causing the outbreak acquired an additional piece of DNA to become resistant to multiple antibiotics, including a third - generation antibiotic.

The fifth season finds the midwives in 1961 facing a typhoid outbreak, the birth of a disabled child, teen pregnancy and a major illness striking one of the Sisters.