Is typhoid worse than usual in East Karachi?

No. Typhoid in East Karachi is well below its usual for these weeks.

2.5 cases a week, against a usual 8.6.

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Read from these four weekly reports by Field Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Division, National Institutes of Health, Islamabad:

  • Week 36, 2026
  • Week 37, 2026
  • Week 38, 2026
  • Week 39, 2026
The 8 reports behind "usual"
  • Week 36, 2024
  • Week 37, 2024
  • Week 38, 2024
  • Week 39, 2024
  • Week 36, 2025
  • Week 37, 2025
  • Week 38, 2025
  • Week 39, 2025

The publisher's own list of its weekly reports

How this is worked out. The last four weeks against the same four weeks of the two years before, for East Karachi alone. What "usual" means.

When does typhoid usually peak in East Karachi?

Usually around July: it peaked in July 2024 and July 2025.

2024 peak2025 peakNext ten weeks

How does East Karachi compare with the rest of Pakistan?

East Karachi is 47th of the 62 districts with enough cases to compare, each against its own usual.

usual⅛×8×32×country 0.6×Abbottabad: 0.5×Badin: 1.2×Bannu: 1.0×Barkhan: 1.2×Buner: 0.0×Chagai: 0.5×Charsadda: 1.0×Chitral Lower: 0.6×Chitral Upper: 0.4×Dadu: 2.5×Lower Dir: 1.6×Upper Dir: 1.8×Hangu: 5.0×Haripur: 0.3×Hyderabad: 0.3×Jacobabad: 0.8×Jaffarabad: 0.1×Jamshoro: 1.1×Jhal Magsi: 0.0×Kalat: 0.0×Kambar Shahdad Kot: 0.6×Central Karachi: 1.1×East Karachi: 0.3×Karachi Keamari: 0.3×Malir Karachi: 0.6×West Karachi: 0.8×Karak: 3.1×Khairpur: 0.7×Khyber: 0.4×Killa Abdullah: 0.5×Kohat: 1.0×Kohistan Upper: 0.2×Lakki Marwat: 1.6×Larkana: 0.2×Lasbela: 1.4×Loralai: 0.8×Malakand: 0.0×Mansehra: 0.2×Mardan: 6.1×Mastung: 0.5×Matiari: 0.1×Mirpur Khas: 0.9×Nasirabad: 0.7×Naushahro Feroze: 0.6×North Waziristan: 0.7×Nowshera: 0.9×Peshawar: 0.5×Sanghar: 0.9×Shaheed Benazir Abad: 1.0×Shangla: 0.8×Sohbatpur: 0.3×South Waziristan (Lower): 1.1×Sujawal: 0.2×Swabi: 0.2×Swat: 2.1×Tando Allahyar: 0.5×Tank: 0.1×Tharparkar: 0.3×Thatta: 1.9×Umer Kot: 0.9×Upper Kurram: 0.5×Usta Muhammad: 0.1×East Karachi

Across Pakistan as a whole, typhoid is at 0.6× its usual; in East Karachi it is 0.3×.

What is typhoid?

A serious infection caused by Salmonella Typhi bacteria. It gets into the blood and can be life-threatening.

Signs
A high fever that lasts a long time, tiredness, headache, feeling sick, belly pain, and constipation or diarrhoea. Some people get a rash.
How it spreads
Through food or water dirtied by an infected person's faeces. People can still pass it on after they feel better.
How to protect yourself
A typhoid vaccine can be given from 6 months of age. Drink safe water, eat food cooked well and served hot, and wash hands with soap.
Get medical help
See a health worker for a high fever that lasts several days; a blood test can confirm typhoid. Finish all the antibiotics given.

In Dooram's words, from the World Health Organization. Source: Typhoid (WHO fact sheet), read 8 October 2026. General information, not medical advice.

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A reported case means someone reached a clinic and a form was filed, so these count reports, not everyone who was ill.

Sources. Field Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Division, National Institutes of Health, Islamabad, weekly report. District maps: World Food Programme Spatial Data Infrastructure, published as a Common Operational Dataset by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.