Typhoid -- Pakistan
A major outbreak of typhoid fever in Pakistan may have been caused by a highly drug-resistant microbe, scientists have warned. Research by the Wellcome Sanger Institute has shown that the typhoid strain behind the outbreak, which began in Hyderabad in Pakistan in November 2016 and has since spread, has acquired an extra piece of DNA that renders it resistant to multiple antibiotics.
"It is significant because it marks the 1st time we have seen such high levels of drug resistance in
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