People get typhoid mostly by eating contaminated food. Some times by drinking contaminated water.
Typhoid kills millions of people every year. You can guess the exact figure of the people, typhoid has taken away from us, from thousands of years. Typhoid has killed the children, mainly.
Typhoid fever is a water or foodborne disease caused by contamination from another person with typhoid fever. Typhoid is carried in the feces of infected people. The number of typhoid fever infections has dropped because people are aware of proper sanitation.
as many as 1 every 3 people get typhoid fever
as many as 1 every 3 people get typhoid fever
30%
by mosquitoes byting
Patient is carrier of typhoid fever for few weeks. Many asymptomatic cases of typhoid are also carriers of typhoid for few weeks. Occasionally the person becomes chronic carrier of typhoid bacteria. Such people are very dangerous, when they work in cooking profession and have poor personal hygiene. You should read the story of Typhoid Mary from USA.
300 million
people with poor hygiene
300 million
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it only infects people most commonly in developing countries where sanitation and hygene are poor