A very deadly typhoid superbug is getting spread across Asia and Africa, which is creating a huge problem, as this study was initially scraped off as being under appreciated. The international study system issued a critical warning that the H58 bacterium is being spread from a single family of bacteria, which is resistant to almost all antibiotics.

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This study is being carried out at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and this far reaching infection is causing a lot of worry amongst them, which is affecting at least 30 million people every year, states RT News. This typhoid bacterium is especially getting spread in Asia and Africa over the past 30 years, states Health Talking.

The H58 is currently displacing other typhoid strains that are already known to medical science, making it much more difficult for researchers to understand the nature and behavior of this type of typhoid. Published in the journal "Nature Genetic," this study involves some odd 74 scientists from almost 12 different countries.

These scientists sequenced 1,832 samples of Salmonella typhi bacteria, which were collected from 63 countries in the time duration from 1992 to 2013. Amongst these samples, 47 percent were found with strains of H58. This is a very shocking statistic and is causing the team of scientists to raise critical warnings.

Typhoid is a disease in which the infected person gets high fever, nausea and abdominal pain, along with the occurrence of pink spots on the chest. Even though Typhoid can be cured through vaccines, the doctors mainly administer the patients with antibiotic drugs.

Scientists are also worried that the current drug-resistant Typhoid strain can evolve and give rise to other drug-resistant strain bacterias. The mutated strains could be even stronger than the parent strain, says reports. They would drastically affect their human carriers and can also cause a large-scale epidemic.

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