Pakistan travel alert ignited by drug-resistant typhoid

America's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said anyone heading to Pakistan or anywhere else in South Asia should take extra care with food and water and get a typhoid vaccination. (Stock picture)

Ben Farmer in Atlanta
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An outbreak of drug-resistant typhoid in Pakistan has led US health officials to issue a travel alert for the country.

America's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said anyone heading to Pakistan or anywhere else in South Asia should take extra care with food and water and get a typhoid vaccination.

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