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After measles, experts worry typhoid could pose the next health challenge as India delays vaccine -Tabassum Barnagarwala

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The country already has a high typhoid burden and increasing drug resistance could led to a rise in treatment cost and recovery time.

The measles outbreak in Mumbai, followed by Ranchi, Ahmedabad and Malappuram over the past month has drawn attention to the large number of unvaccinated children. Over 16,000 suspected cases have been recorded in India. Of the 20 children who have died of measles since October 26 in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, just one had been vaccinated – but only with the first of the two-dose course.

As health workers launch an intensive door-to-door campaign to persuade parents to have their children immunised, public health experts point to the threat from another infectious disease for which a vaccine exists but is still not part of India’s free universal immunisation programme.

Typhoid – a water-borne disease that spreads through water and food contaminated with Salmonella Typhi bacteria – kills an estimated 1,28,000-1,61,000 people a year. India accounts for over 40% of these deaths while more than eight million Indians get the disease every year. The bacterial infection causes high fever, weakness, stomach pain and diarrhoea. In severe cases, it can lead to pneumonia or intestinal bleeding and cause death.

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