typhoid

(Newser) - Zac Efron may have taken method acting a bit too far. Last month, Efron talked to Variety about his new reality-TV series, Killing Zac Efron, set to air on the Quibi short-form-content platform after it launches in April, noting, "I tend to thrive under extreme circumstances." It's...

(Newser) - Three Colorado residents came down with typhoid fever—a potentially deadly disease more common to third-world countries—after a worker at a Qdoba restaurant likely touched their food after going to the bathroom without washing his or her hands, KDVR reports. The three victims—two of whom were hospitalized—ate...

(Newser) - Efforts to fight typhoid in some of the world's poorest countries have helped create an antibiotic-resistant "superbug" strain of the disease that's spreading worldwide, researchers warn. According to a study published in Nature Genetics , the resistant H58 strain of typhoid is now present in at least 21...