At least one Los Angeles Police Department employee at the agency’s downtown L.A. station has contracted the bacteria that causes typhoid fever and is being treated for the condition, the department ...

If somebody asked you to drink a solution filled with live bacteria that can cause typhoid, you'd probably say ... no. "I think they did a beautiful job," says Myron Levine, the University of Maryland ...

Typhoid fever is caused by Salmonella typhi bacteria. Typhoid fever is rare in industrialized countries. However, it remains a serious health threat in the developing world, especially for children.

People who carry a particular type of gene have natural resistance against typhoid fever according to new research. Enteric fever, or typhoid fever as it more commonly known, is a considerable health ...

An inexpensive vaccine against typhoid fever offers protection across age groups and is particularly effective in preschool-age children, a large trial in India finds. The same study shows that ...

Deputy Director of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases and a member of the joint staff, University of the Witwatersrand Lucille Blumberg works for South Africa's National Institute of ...

An employee at the Los Angeles Police Department has contracted the bacteria that causes the life-threatening typhoid fever, the department said Wednesday. The employee, who works in the Central ...