Global Typhoid Challenges in Focus at International Conference in Rwanda
KIGALI, Rwanda, Dec. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The 13th International Conference on Typhoid & Other Invasive Salmonelloses gets under way today in Kigali, Rwanda, with nearly 350 researchers, healthcare professionals and policymakers meeting to find ways to address the urgent challenges of typhoid and other invasive salmonelloses.
- KIGALI, Rwanda, Dec. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The 13th International Conference on Typhoid & Other Invasive Salmonelloses gets under way today in Kigali, Rwanda, with nearly 350 researchers, healthcare professionals and policymakers meeting to find ways to address the urgent challenges of typhoid and other invasive salmonelloses.
- The three-day conference, hosted by the Coalition against Typhoid (CaT), housed at the Sabin Vaccine Institute, is the largest convening of the typhoid research community.
- Typhoid is a bacterial infection contracted through the consumption of food or beverages contaminated with Salmonella Typhi.
- There are an estimated 9-24 million cases of typhoid fever globally each year, leading to more than 110,000 deaths.