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UVM conducts typhoid drug trials

By Nancy Remsen • Free Press Staff Writer • July 7, 2008

Although typhoid isn't a threat in Vermont, Presson said he learned that elsewhere in the world it annually afflicts 22 million people, often young children, and kills more than 200,000. Also, relying on after-the-fact treatment with antibiotics may not be the best remedy in the future because health officials report growing evidence that the bacteria is becoming resistant to those medicines.