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  2. Typhoid fever - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Typhoid-causing bacteria have become increasingly antibiotic ...

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    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.

  4. Typhus - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  5. Wikipedia : VideoWiki/Typhoid fever

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    VideoWiki/Typhoid fever Link to Commons ... Risk factors include poor sanitation and poor hygiene. [1] ... The risk of death may be as high as 20% without treatment ...

  6. Fecal–oral route - Wikipedia

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    The common factors in the fecal-oral route can be summarized as five Fs: fingers, flies, fields, fluids, and food. Diseases caused by fecal-oral transmission include typhoid, cholera, polio, hepatitis and many other infections, especially ones that cause diarrhea.

  7. Paratyphoid fever - Wikipedia

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    Without treatment, symptoms may last weeks or months. [1] Other people may carry the bacteria without being affected; however, they are still able to spread the disease to others. [3] Typhoid and paratyphoid are of similar severity. [3] Paratyphoid and typhoid fever are types of enteric fever. [7]

  8. What is HMPV? Here's what you need to know as virus cases ...

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    The CDC says there is no treatment of vaccines to tackle HMPV, but it did say medical care can be “supportive.” The Cleveland Clinic says treatments for the virus can include oxygen therapy if ...

  9. Waterborne disease - Wikipedia

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    Pontiac fever produces milder symptoms resembling acute influenza without pneumonia. Legionnaires' disease has severe symptoms such as fever, chills, pneumonia (with cough that sometimes produces sputum), ataxia, anorexia, muscle aches, malaise and occasionally diarrhea and vomiting Leptospirosis: Caused by bacterium of genus Leptospira