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Volume 357:1069-1071 September 13, 2007 Number 11
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Putting Typhoid Vaccination on the Global Health Agenda
Denise DeRoeck, M.P.H., Luis Jodar, Ph.D., and John Clemens, M.D.

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Although typhoid fever, caused by infection with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (often called S. typhi), long ago ceased to be a public health problem in industrialized countries, it is still a substantial cause of illness and death in many developing countries. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are 16 million to 33 million cases and 500,000 to 600,000 deaths from typhoid fever annually,1 though one study conservatively estimated that 22 million cases and 216,000 related deaths occurred in 2000.2 This death rate is not much lower than the estimated 270,000 annual deaths from cervical cancer, caused largely . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Ms. DeRoeck is the coordinator of social-science research and institutional development, Dr. Jodar the deputy director-general, and Dr. Clemens the director-general of the International Vaccine Institute, based in Seoul, Korea.



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