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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]
The infection was due to oysters sourced from Emsworth, where the oyster beds had been contaminated with raw sewage. [29] [30] The most notorious carrier of typhoid fever, but by no means the most destructive, was Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary. In 1907, she became the first carrier in the United States to be identified and traced.
Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a bacterial illness caused by Salmonella typhi. [1] Onset of illness
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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.
Typhoid is an acute life-threatening bacterial illness, caused by eating contaminated food or water, or by cross contamination with infected faeces and urine. The risk of catching typhoid in nineteenth-century Britain and dying from it was a very real threat. The population of Maidstone was about 34,000 at the time, and at least 1,908 people ...
It usually occurs due to some infectious disease. Diagnosis of continuous fever is usually based on the clinical signs and symptoms but some biological tests, chest X-ray and CT scan are also used. [2] Typhoid fever is an example of continuous fever and it shows a characteristic step-ladder pattern, a step-wise increase in temperature with a ...
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]