About 15% of patients with typhoid fever develop serious neurological complications, including delirium and seizures, that are collectively described as acute encephalopathy. Until now, however, ...

Typhoid fever is a disease that, in the United States, is synonymous with Mary Mallon—a woman better known as Typhoid Mary, who infected New Yorkers with typhoid in the early 1900s. But typhoid is not ...

This do-it-yourself approach is not only dangerous; it’s scientifically flawed. Fever is not a disease. It’s a symptom — your body’s way of sounding the alarm that something is wrong. That “something” ...