Children in urban areas on the Indian subcontinent are particularly affected. Although the worldwide fatality rate for typhoid fever has fallen to 1%, the annual global burden is 12 million cases ( John, Van Aart, and Grassly 2016). Typhoid fever death rates fell sharply after cities invested in expensive clean water infrastructure ( Alsan and Goldin 2015 Cutler and Miller 2005 Troesken 1999), with declines in typhoid fever accounting for nearly half of the total mortality reductions in major US cities between 19 ( Cutler and Miller 2005).
In the early twentieth century, typhoid fever, a water-borne illness for which there was no cure and which killed 10–20% of its victims, ravaged US cities. But how does the media report news? We investigate this question by examining how the media reacted to changes in typhoid death rates in the United States between 18.
Accurate media reports inform the electorate and increase government accountability, leading to greater expenditures on calamity relief and to less corruption (e.g., Besley and Burgess 2002 Besley and Pratt 2006 Larreguy, Marshall, and Snyder 2014 Strömberg 2015a).
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