Yellow Fever — Worldwide/Unknown
Researchers from the Wellcome Trust, who have been tracking the hard-to-treat infection, say it is replacing regular typhoid in many countries. They analyzed bacterial samples from 63 countries, nearly half were resistant to standard antimicrobial treatments. Over-reliance on these drugs is to blame, they say in Nature Genetics.
Increasingly, doctors now need to use other, more expensive and less readily available antimicrobial agents to treat typhoid fever, a disease that kills around 200
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