PM´s assistant launches drive against XDR typhoid in Sindh
(WorldNews Pakistan)

Special Assistant to Prime Minister for Health Dr Zafar Mirza on Friday inaugurated a Typhoid Conjugated Vaccine (TCV) campaign against the extensively drug-resistant (XDR) bug in Sindh, claiming that Pakistan would be the first country to vaccinate such a large number of children against the waterborne disease after it was exported to seven countries of the world. “Cases of XDR typhoid were detected in seven countries of the world and case investigations tracked them back to Sindh and Punjab, where this strain of extensively drug resistant typhoid is present. Under international obligations, we have to take measures to contain this outbreak,� he said while speaking at the...