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common name: typhoid fever
scientific name: Salmonella typhi
More about Tyhoid Fever *About 17 million people a year are infected with this disease, and about 600,000 die. *This epidemic was first discovered in the early 17th century. *Symptoms are fever, headache, nausea, loss of appetite, and possibly constipation, diarrhea, and enlarjment of the spleen. *The mortality rate of Typhoid fever is 12-30% depending on where you live. If treated there is a 99% chance of survival.
The most commom cause of typhoid fever is by drinking water inflicted with the urine or feces of an infected person. This is why the disease mainly occurs in third world countries, like Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The disease multiplies in the small intestine and moves on throughout the body to conquer other orgnisms. This process takes 1-3 weeks. The best way to prevent this disease is by drinking clean, purified water. In the U.S. there is an average of 400 cases a year, with approximatley 70% of patients having traveled the world within 6 weeks of getting the disease.
Vaccine The Salmonella typhi vaccine is made up of ampicillin, ceftriaxone and chlororamphenicol. Antibiodics help within 2-3 days. If you do not get treatment there is a 20% chance you will die.
Bacteria: Salmonella Typhi is considered a bacteria
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Sources http://web.uconn.edu/mcbstaff/graf/Student%20presentations/Salmonellatyphi/Salmonellatyphi.html http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/salmonella.html http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/231135-overview http://www.genome.wisc.edu/sequencing/sty2.htm http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/519550/Salmonella-typhi https://health.google.com/health/ref/Typhoid+fever
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salmonella typhi vaccine
it was a major epidemic in the early 1900s *typhoid Mary* was the first known healthy carrier and was known to have given the disease to at least 47 people and cause at least 3 deaths.
some famous people who died of typhoid fever: Wilbur Wright, Willie Lincoln (President Lincoln's son) Abigal Adams (President Adams' wife)
3 different kinds made by: Berna, Swiss Serum and Vaccine Institute (capsule) Pasteur Merieux (injection) Wyeth-Ayerst (injection)
Salmonella Typhi is a harmful disease
found in human waste and water (contaminated by inflicted human waste)
Salmonella typhi needs a carrier to reprodue so it hooks on to host cells and makes copies of itself and then leaves the cell to die and moves on to new cells
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