Wrong widal tests have contributed to the misdiagnosis and poor management of typhoid fever in Nigeria, Daily Trust investigations have shown. A medical laboratory scientist, Ndubuisi Ebitea, said the ...

Editor's Note: This week's blog is a personal story from a Nigeria Health Watch team member, Patience Adejo. She writes about her experience being diagnosed with Typhoid Fever multiple times using the ...

More often than not, the experience for patients with a fever is to get tested and treated for a typhoid infection. The test is a rapid blood test called the Widal test. The subsequent treatment ...