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The Typhoid Board determined that during the war, more soldiers died from this disease than from yellow fever or from battle wounds. The board promoted sanitary measures including latrine policy, disinfection, camp relocation, and water sterilization, but by far the most successful antityphoid method was vaccination, which became compulsory in ...
The medical officer stopped keeping a record of the deaths after early October 1897 so more people may have died. The epidemic was a ‘...turning point in public health...’; during the epidemic trials of water sterilisation using chlorination and the first immunisations with typhoid vaccine were carried out in Maidstone. [3]
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]
The 1937 Croydon typhoid outbreak, also known as the Croydon epidemic of typhoid fever, [1] was an outbreak of typhoid fever in Croydon, Surrey, now part of London, in 1937. It resulted in 341 cases of typhoid (43 fatal), and it caused considerable local discontent leading to a media campaign and a public inquiry.
Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 – November 11, 1938), commonly known as Typhoid Mary, was an Irish-born American cook who is believed to have infected between 51 and 122 people with typhoid fever. The infections caused three confirmed deaths, with unconfirmed estimates of as many as 50.
She is the first recorded asymptomatic carrier of typhoid, a bacterial infection that is spread by eating food or drinking water that has been contaminated with the feces of an infected person.
In 1964, there was an outbreak of typhoid in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland.The first two cases were identified on 20 May 1964; eventually over 400 cases were diagnosed and the patients were quarantined at the City Hospital in Urquhart Road, Woodend Hospital in Eday Road, and Tor-na-Dee Hospital in Milltimber which was used as an overflow hospital for typhoid cases. [1]
Israeli desperation was such that two Palmah Arab Platoon scouts, David Mizrahi and 'Ezra Afgin (Horin), were sent to Gaza reportedly to poison wells (as well as gather information). They were caught on 22 May near Jibalya with "thermos flasks containing water contaminated with typhoid and diphtheria [or dysentery] germs," according to King Farouk.