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Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a disease caused by Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi bacteria, also called Salmonella Typhi. [2] [3] Symptoms vary from mild to severe, and usually begin six to 30 days after exposure. [4] [5] Often there is a gradual onset of a high fever over several days. [4]
Since November 2016, Pakistan has had an outbreak of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid fever. [ 43 ] In 2020 a meta-analysis of reports of drug resistant typhoid fever revealed that among all Typhi isolates, 9,056 (25.9%) of 34,996 were resistant to chloramphenicol, 13,481 (38.8%) of 34,783 to ampicillin, and 13,366 (37.9%) of 35,270 to ...
1927 Montreal typhoid fever epidemic 1927 Montreal, Canada Typhoid fever: 538 [196] 1929–1930 psittacosis pandemic: 1929–1930 Worldwide Psittacosis: 100+ [197] 1937 Croydon typhoid outbreak: 1937 Croydon, United Kingdom Typhoid fever: 43 [198] 1937 Australia polio epidemic 1937 Australia Poliomyelitis: Unknown [199] 1940 Sudan yellow fever ...
Typhoid fever causes 11 million infections and more than 100,000 deaths per year, and is most prevalent in south Asia – which accounts for 70% of the global disease burden.
Typhoid fever is caused by the bacterium Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi. [ 37 ] In Canada alone, the typhus epidemic of 1847 killed more than 20,000 people from 1847 to 1848, mainly Irish immigrants in fever sheds and other forms of quarantine, who had contracted the disease aboard the crowded coffin ships in fleeing the Great Irish Famine .
Recently, an outbreak of pneumonia across multiple schools in one Ohio county, as well as surges in Denmark, China and the Netherlands, have caused concern that the increases might be related and ...
In 1859, an outbreak in Bengal contributed to transmission of the disease by travelers and troops to Iran, Iraq, Arabia and Russia. [23] Japan suffered at least seven major outbreaks of cholera between 1858 and 1902. The Ansei outbreak of 1858–60, for example, is believed to have killed between 100,000 and 200,000 people in Tokyo alone. [32]
However, medical experts have concluded that the outbreak in Ohio appears to be driven by the usual mix of respiratory viruses during the colder months — all of which previously circulated in ...