Pakistan deploys new vaccine against 'superbug' typhoid outbreak

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan began vaccinating millions of children against typhoid on Friday (Nov 15) to try to control a drug-resistant superbug outbreak ...

"Beginning the vaccination in urban areas is critical in preventing the disease among the communities most at risk," Azra Fazal Pechuho, Sindh's provincial minister for health, said in a statement. Typhoid also disproportionately affects children.

The typhoid outbreak in Pakistan is caused by a bacterial strain that has evolved extensive drug resistance and become a so-called"superbug". It started in 2016 and has so far infected around 11,000 people, with a death rate of around 1 per cent.

 

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