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15 05, 2018

Pakistan becomes first country to launch Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine

2018-05-27T02:23:06+00:00

A new typhoid conjugate vaccine is to be added to the national Expanded Programme for Immunization following new evidence about the threat posed by a strain of typhoid that is extremely difficult to treat with antibiotics. An outbreak of extensively-drug resistant (XDR) typhoid in Hyderabad has already affected many children. Research from Aga Khan University [...]