Another illness that sees a surge during the rainy days is typhoid, or typhoid fever, which is caused by the bacterium Salmonella typhi. It usually spreads through the ingestion of contaminated food ...

It is estimated that there are 13m cases of typhoid and paratyphoid A fever every year, resulting in 133,000 deaths. The condition mainly affects school-aged children in Asia and Africa.

Typhoid fever causes an estimated 21.5 million illnesses [1] and 222,000 deaths [2] worldwide each year, concentrated among people in low-resource settings with unreliable access to safe water and ...