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Typhoid Fever
Typhoid fever is a common global disease characterized by fever, diarrhea and rashes. It is transmitted through the intake of foods, drinks or water contaminated with the bacteria Salmonella typhi. Typhoid fever is mostly prevalent among developing countries.
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How do you write an absent letter to school because of illness?
Just write :
Date of writing note:
"To whom it may concern, (child's name) was absent from school on (date of missed day) because he/she was not feeling well." Then sign your name.
How many people died of typhoid in the gold rush?
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.
What food can take typhoid people?
Any food that is freshly cooked, is not hard and is not fried can be eaten from the restaurant.
What countries in Africa is typhoid fever found?
Typhoid fever is found in almost all countries of Africa, except perhaps South Africa.
Yes! With proper nutrition including vitamins, minerals, supplements and exercise. Our immune system will and does prevent and cure almost all heath problems including the neutralizing and eliminating toxins and poisons from our bodies. Vitamin C is a great pain reliever for fast relief of infection and inflammation including gums and teeth.
What is the shape of the bacteria that causes typhoid fever?
Vibrio cholerae is in a shape of a curved or bent rod. It looks like a fishing rod when you are pulling the caught fish out of the water.
How do you interpret widal test results for typhoid fever?
Widal test is an agglutination test for the detection of agglutinins (antibodies) for H and O antigen for salmonella in patients with enteric fever. Procedure: Serial dilutions of the patients serum is taken from 1:10 to 1:640. To each equal volumes of Salmonella antigens are added. The tubes are incubated overnight and read. Result: The highest dilution of the patients serum in which agglutinations occurs is noted, ex. if the dilution is 1 in 160 then the titer is 169. A single test of O titer of 1:100 or more and of H titer of 1:200 or more is significant. A rising titer of four fold or higher in an interval of 7 - 10 days is more meaningful than one test. Cautionary factors: In endemic areas, low titer of agglutinins is present in the serum of normal persons. Immunisation with TAB vaccine will show high titres of antibodies to S. typhi, S. paratyphi A and B. (in an infection there will be rise in only one type of antibodies) Person who have had past enteric infections or immunisations may develop anamestic reaction during unreleated fever like malaria. There is only a transient rise. Bacterial antigens used may contain fimbrial antigens which give false positive results. Cases treated early with chloramphenicol show poor antibody response. Test maybe positive in carriers
How long is a typhoid shot last?
It is recommended to get a booster of the vaccine every 2-5 years. Please check with your local travel clinic for more info.
In which age group is typhoid fever most common?
In most third world countries, children are the most affected those above five years of age, adolescents and young adults.
Yes, infact animals can obtain yellow fever. They even can spread it on to you, and infact, alot of animals that obtain yellow fever doesn't bother them.(don't get affected by the disease.)
What are the long term effects of Typoid?
The long-term effects of typhoid fever can be intestinal perforations and psychiatric problems like hallucinations and confusion. If untreated, typhoid can have long-term effects, such as infections and gastrointestinal bleeding. Typhoid fever is caused by a bacterial infection.
From www.ehow.com Typhoid is spread when you ingest food and water that has been contaminated with human waste containing the bacterium salmonella typhi. Some 12.5 million people worldwide contract typhoid, and the incidence is highest in developing countries.
It is unknown how many deaths "Typhoid Mary" was responsible for.
Her real name was Mary Mallon, and at first she was hired by New York banker Charles Henry Warren to be his family's cook during a summer holiday on Long Island. Shortly afterwards, one of Warren's daughters contracted typhoid fever. Next, Mrs Warren and two maids became ill, followed by the gardener and another of Warren's daughters. The owners of the holiday property hired investigators to find the cause.
Investigator George Soper, a civil engineer with experience in typhoid fever outbreaks, found that from 1900 to 1907, Mallon had worked at seven jobs in which 22 people had become ill with typhoid fever. The case that Mallon was a carrier was difficult to prove, as Mallon herself was perfectly healthy, showing no signs whatsoever of the disease. However, after being forcibly taken to the Willard Parker Hospital in New York, Mallon was shown to be harbouring Typhoid bacilli. She was then quarantined for several years, only being released on the condition that she no longer work as a cook.
Unable to find work that paid as well as a cook's wages, Typhoid Mary returned to cooking five years later at the Sloane Maternity Hospital in Manhattan, under the name of Mrs Brown. Another 25 people became ill with typhoid fever, and two of them died. Mallon was tracked down, and quarantined for another 23 years. Mallon eventually died on 11 November 1938.
Can seasonal allergies cause skin rashes?
Yes, seasonal allergies are no different from 'normal' allergies.
Whywas typhoid Mary was so dangerous as a healthy carrier?
Typhoid Mary spread the typhoid in USA for many years. She became very much infamous. Probably she carried typhoid bacteria in her gall bladder. You need to read her story in original.
What is the best treatment for chronic typhoid?
Paratyphoid fever is treated with antibiotics over a two- to three-week period
What medicine cures Typhoid Fever?
Typhoid fever is caused by Salmonella typhus, and is typically treated with general supportive care (fluids, nutritional support, etc.) and antibiotics.
What part of the body does typhoid affect?
In the first week of typhoid fever, there is bacteremia. So many organs and systems can be affected by typhoid bacteria. After one week the bacteria settle for the small intestine of the patient, though the whole body is affected by typhoid toxins.
How many people in 1901 died from typhoid fever?
In 1901 the death rate was 27.5 per 100,000 people or 0.3%.
Typhoid fever is not an airborne disease. It spreads by fecal/oral route.
Unless and until proved otherwise the water should be taken as contaminated. So you can drink mineral water or you may drink some soft drink from Coca cola or Pepsi brand, which is widely available. It is better to carry small pack of chlorine or HOCl with you. Add the drops to the clean water container to make it safe. One drop per 3 to 4 litres of water will do. Wait for about one hour before you drink the same. Alternately you can take water in one litre bottle. Take little water in the cap of the bottle. Add one drop of HOCl to the water in the cap. Mix it. Discard about 3/4 of the water and add the 1/4 water to your bottle. Mix it and then you can consume the same after about one hour. Once you consume the water, please, repeat the procedure.
What was the cause of infection for the typhoid fever?
The cauative agent for typhoid is Salmonella typhi
Why is antibiotics use to treat typhoid fever?
You have not invented new antibiotic from many years. Instead you have misused them to create the resistant bacteria. You have ceftriaxone, ciprofloxacin and azithromycin to treat the typhoid. Technically the ciprofloxacin is not an antibiotic. Ciprofloxacin is not obtained from microorganisms. It is a fluroquinolone and is man made, in the laboratory, from modification of nalidixic acid.
