Essay On Typhoid Fever

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Typhoid is a common global bacterial disease spread by the consumption of food or water contaminated with the feces of an infected individual, which consist of the bacterium Salmonella enteric subsp. Enteric serovar Typhi.[2]
The infection has received numerous names, such as stomach fever, abdominal typhus, infant remittent fever, enteric fever, slow fever, nervous fever and phytogenic fever. The term typhoid means "similar to typhus" and initiates from the neuropsychiatric warning sign common to typhoid and typhus.[3] In spite of this similarity of their names, typhoid fever and typhus are different diseases and are initiated by diverse species of bacteria.[4]
The incidence of this sickness fell suddenly in the developed world with the rise of 20th-century antibiotics and sanitation methods.[5][6]
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Over the passage of these phases, the patient becomes tired and exhausted.[7]
1. In the 1st week, the fever increases gradually, and temperature variations are seen with comparative bradycardia (Faget sign), malaise, headache, and cough. A bleeding nose (epistaxis) is perceived in a quarter of circumstances, and stomach pain is also possible. There is a reduction in the number of
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Public education operations promising people to wash their hands after defecating and before conducting food are an important element in controlling spread of the disease. According to United States statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the chlorination of drinking water has headed to theatrical reductions in the spreading of typhoid fever in the