Coalition Against Typhoid

Vote now to help bring a novel vaccination registry to Ghana

Voting is now open to help the Yonkofa Project support community heath in Ghana through a novel vaccine registry. With the help of the Coalition against Typhoid, the Yonkofa Project submitted a proposal to Grand Challenges Canada Rising Stars in Global Health program.

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A Traveler's Experience with Typhoid Fever

The Coalition against Typhoid (CaT) website now features information about typhoid for travelers. The section includes a traveler's account of his experience falling ill with typhoid fever and lessons learned about typhoid prevention. The unfortunate traveler in this case is Sabin's own Mike McQuestion, director of the Sustainable Immunization Financing Program.

High fevers, chills, malaise, loss of appetite and a splitting headache. Those are just a few of the symptoms associated with a typhoid fever infection. It’s enough to remind anyone that comes down with typhoid while traveling that it’s important to stay up on top of their travel immunizations.

Mike McQuestion would know. He came down with typhoid in November 2010, after spending several weeks abroad in Africa and South Asia. He did not check to see if his vaccines were up to date before he left. Ironically, McQuestion is a frequent traveler because he works in countries around the world advocating for broader use of vaccines. We can all learn from his experience.

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Coalition against Typhoid (CaT) featured in The Lancet

A recent expert meeting on typhoid epidemiological modeling, organized by the Coalition against Typhoid, marks one of the first attempts to jolt governments into action against typhoid fever, a disease that is thriving largely unnoticed in many developing countries.

John Maurice reports on the issue in this month's edition of The Lancet. In the article he interviews Chris Nelson, director of the Coalition against Typhoid (CaT) secretariat at the Sabin Vaccine Institute, Jeremy Farrar, professor of tropical medicine and director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam, Zulfiqar Bhutta, founding chair of the Women and Child Health Division at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan, and Seth Berkley, CEO of the GAVI Alliance.

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