Nigeria typhoid endemic

Thyphoid fever is quite rare in the industrialised nations but it remains an endemic problem in most developing countries due to contaminated and unsafe food and drinking water as well as poor sewage disposal management.

The samonela thyphe the culprit bacteria,the foecal oral infection is the bacteria found in faeces which is ingested through food and water has more than 2000 serotypes.


Soundbite:Man Speaking(ENGLISH):

"IS very common in Nigeria because of our hygienic problem because here people just urinate,pass faeces anywhere and the rain will carry this".

Public health speacialists have expressed concerns about the habit of eating in outlets popularly called "bukateria" and wonder how prepared the various ministries of Health are to tackle the hygiene level of food vendors especially since the 111 year-old widal test said to be only 25% accurate is being rejected.


Soundbite:Health Speacialist Speaking(ENGLISH):

"A directorate of occupational health and safety that we have in the Ministry of Health now one of its main priorities is to make sure that at the primary level the people that are feeding us ,the people that are handling our food and that goes all the way from the abbattoirs to the person that is selling rice at the side of the road that they do so having undergone some sort of preliminary training".


Anyone diagnosed with typhoid fever which can perforate the intestines if untreated is advised to seek a second opinion as chloramphenical has been deliseted by WHO because of suspicions that it could cause leukemia.

With 17 million new cases of thphoid fever evry year,the President of the Global Council on Wter Diseases who's also a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in the United States of America has invented the typhoid check kit.

Soundbite:Professor Speaking(ENGLISH):

"We came up with this in typhoid check,which literarily what it does is it looks for anti-germ or the bacterium which is samonela thyphe from the stools.

Again if you look at the biology and also the transmissions of these organisms it goes from what you ingest in that contaminated water,contaminated food and everything and it gets into the stomach".

The socio-economic impact of typhoid cannot be quantified as there are many healthy carriers who distribute the bactria unknowingly.
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[powerrangersr]

what are some policies for typhoid in african countries?

[tech4156]

they need sewage system throughout nigeria, maybe cost $2 billion and take 5-10 years to build.

[AnatomaniaK]

cholophenecol is banned? unbelievable.