TYPHOID FEVER

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CAUSES OF DISEASE

• People get typhoid fever by drinking and eating infected objects.
• A person with the illness sometimes contaminates food/water but it can also be caused by sewage.
• Salmonella typhoid is the bacterium responsible for typhoid fever.

SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS

• Fever not feeling good, and stomach pain are some symptoms that come early.
• Symptoms that may occur are: constant fever, Brady cardia, diarrhea, and more.
• Some ways to prevent getting it are: don't drink "dirty" water, eat hot food, and wash hands often.

EFFECTS OF THE DISEASE

• The bacterium that causes typhoid fever is called Salmonell typhi
• As a result of, typhoid your body could have kidney failure, peritonitis, intestinal holes, and sever bleeding.
• Some less common outcomes are: phneumonia, myocarditis, and endocarditis.

MEDICAL ADVANCEMENTS

• As time went on people came up with drugs that are one of the only things that can cure typhoid fever.
• The drugs that can cure the disease are ampicillin, amoxicillin, and cirprofloxacin.
• Another type of treatment is that some people drink clean water with electrolyte packets.

DEATH TOLL

• Typhoid fever killed one third of the Athen people around 430-424 BC.
• If typhoid fever goes untreated, it can kill 30% at most, of people infected.
• During 2004-2005 there was an outbreak in the Dominican Republic in which there was 42,000 cases and 214 deaths.

PLACES THE DISEASE IS MOST COMMON

• Typhoid fever is not common in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Austailia, and Japan, but is common in other places.
• Take precautions when traveling to a developing world.
• In the last ten years, travelers native to the United States, Asia, Africa, and Latin America have been at risk.

SOURCES

• U.S Department of Health and Human Services www.nlm.nih.gov/medineplus/ency/article/001332.htm
• Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research www.mayoclinic.com/health/typhoid-fever/DS00538/DSECTION=prevention
• UTAH DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH OFFICE OF EPIDIEMIOLOGY health.utah.gov/epi/fact_sheets/typhoid.pdf
• Yale University news.yale.edu/2012/11/15/Yale-researchers-discover-why-typhoid-fever-pathog...