QUINCY (CBS) – On Thursday it was confirmed that a child at a daycare and preschool in North Quincy had been diagnosed with typhoid fever, a disease rarely found in the United States. For many, the ...

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Both typhoid and paratyphoid are bacterial infections that primarily cause intestinal infections. However, there are many differences between the two. The bacteria that spread these infections are ...

A drug-resistant strain of typhoid fever is spreading worldwide, according to new research. A study published in Nature Genetics conducted by a team of 74 researchers in over 12 countries shows that ...

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 ...

A tenacious epidemic of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid in Pakistan is just one small genetic step away from becoming untreatable—and health experts expect it to spread worldwide. “It’s a ...

Typhoid Fever was a serious problem at the turn of the century; in 1900 it killed 35,000 Americans. And in August 1906, when six people suddenly came down sick in the Oyster Bay household of banker ...

NORTH QUINCY – Some parents are concerned after a child at a day care and preschool in Massachusetts was diagnosed with typhoid fever, CBS Boston reports. The Bright Horizons center in North Quincy is ...

Tracking down the culprit behind an outbreak of typhoid fever in 1900s New York was a breakthrough in how symptom-free carriers can spread sickness. An Irish cook named Mary Mallon was the first ...