Health Alerts

The conjugate typhoid vaccine (TCV) is being introduced into the childhood vaccination schedule, starting this month in the Sindh with a later roll-out to the entire country to be completed by 2021. A catch-up campaign is planned for Nov 18-30, when more than 10 million children aged between 9mo and 15 years living in urban areas of the Sindh will be vaccinated with the TCV. Reports of travellers returning from Pakistan with extensively drug-resistant typhoid infections have been recorded by Australia, the US, UK, Canada, Spain, Denmark, Taiwan and Ireland. Read more.