Man in his 30s still in isolation ward, but out of danger: CDC

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/09/24
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

The CDC reported Taiwan's first case of XDR typhoid fever Tuesday September 24. (By Central News Agency)

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on Tuesday (September 24) announced the first case of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid fever, diagnosed in a man who had visited Pakistan.

XDR Salmonella Typhi is a life-threatening and highly infectious disease, resistant to five classes of antibiotics, leaving azithromycin as the only effective oral antibiotic.

While the Taiwanese patient had visited Morocco, India, Pakistan and Indonesia, tests showed he most likely contracted the virus during his stay in Pakistan, the Central News Agency reported. The country has registered more than 5,200 cases of the typhoid fever since 2016, mostly in the cities of Karachi and Hyderabad.    [FULL  STORY]