More often than not, the experience for patients with a fever is to get tested and treated for a typhoid infection. The test is a rapid blood test called the Widal test. The subsequent treatment ...

Monrovia — A prominent global infectious disease expert, Dr. Dougbeh Christopher Nyan has proposed the banning of the Widal Test in Liberia, a serological testing method commonly used for diagnosis of ...

One of the commonest ailments, among urban Nigerians, is arguably typhoid fever. Once there is a recurrent or resistant fever, many Nigerians, without a clinical analysis, believe the sick person is ...

Pune: Typhoid cases have risen 65% to 112 in the first half of this year as compared to 68 in the same period in 2024, PMC data showed, with experts highlighting an increase in patients with prolonged ...

As many as 40 cases were reported in Balrampur (15) and Lokbandhu (25) hospitals in the last 15 days, in which the Widal test, a method of diagnosis of enteric fever or typhoid fever, was positive.

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The Commissioner for Health in Anambra State, Vincent Okpala, has said that Typhoid fever in Nigeria is not as common as it has been made to be. Mr Okpala told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka ...