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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.
Typhoid fever is caused by salmonella typhi bacteria.
Yes. Typhoid fever is common there.
Typhoid is the common name. I have never heard of it called anything else.
Bacteria Virus
as many as 1 every 3 people get typhoid fever
Typhoid fever is caused by a bacterium, not nucleic acid like RNA or DNA.
No, typhoid fever is caused by the bacterium Salmonella typhi, an obvious relative of the well-known food poisoning disease salmonellosis.
Peritonitis is a frequent cause of death from typhoid fever.
Cholera & Typhoid fever would be two of the more common, but there are many more
Typhoid fever - also known simply as typhoid - is a common worldwide bacterial disease transmitted by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with the fecesof an infected person, which contain the bacterium Salmonella entericasubsp. enterica, serovar Typhi.The disease has received various names, such as gastric fever, enteric fever, abdominal typhus, infantile remittant fever, slow fever, nervous fever, and pythogenic fever. The name typhoidmeans "resembling typhus" and comes from the neuropsychiatric symptoms common to typhoid and typhus.Despite this similarity of their names, typhoid fever and typhus are distinct diseases and are caused by different species of bacteria.The occurrence of this disease fell sharply in the developed world with the rise of 20th-century sanitation techniques and antibiotics. In 2013 it resulted in about 161,000 deaths - down from 181,000 in 1990.
Typhoid fever is very uncommon in USA. You get few cases of typhoid among the travellers and immigrants. Typhoid is a curiosity in USA.