as many as 1 every 3 people get typhoid fever
Yes. Typhoid fever is common there.
Typhoid is the common name. I have never heard of it called anything else.
Typhoid fever was not very common in the 1940's. As a matter of fact, the fatality cases caused by typhoid fever in the 40's was less than 15%. It was mild in the 1940's.
Peritonitis is a frequent cause of death from typhoid fever.
Typhoid fever is very uncommon in USA. You get few cases of typhoid among the travellers and immigrants. Typhoid is a curiosity in USA.
as many as 1 every 3 people get typhoid fever
as many as 1 every 3 people get typhoid fever
Poor sanitation is a common factor in typhoid fever and hepatitis. Lack of clean water are risk factors.
Typhoid is similar to typhus fever. So it is probably called as typhoid fever. Typhoid has surpassed the typhus fever in prevalence to great extent.
it was very mild and contagious
Typhoid fever was almost eradicated from developed world by improved sanitation and personal hygiene. It was and is fairly common in developing world, where sanitation and hygiene was and is poor.
It is fairly common to have typhoid bacteria in your stool for one or two weeks after you get the typhoid fever. Most chronic carriers have got the typhoid bacteria in their gall bladder. They pass them via stool, periodically.