Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a disease caused by Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi bacteria, also called Salmonella typhi. Symptoms...
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Mary Mallon (redirect from Typhoid Mary in Oyster Bay)
commonly known as Typhoid Mary, was an Irish-born American cook who is believed to have infected between 51 and 122 people with typhoid fever. The infections...
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Typhoid vaccines are vaccines that prevent typhoid fever. Several types are widely available: typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV), Ty21a (a live oral vaccine)...
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Typhoid Mary Fisk (née Walker), also known as Bloody Mary and Mutant Zero, is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics...
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Typhoid Sufferers or Tifusari may refer to: Typhoid Sufferers (poem), 1950 poem by Jure Kaštelan Typhoid Sufferers (film), 1963 short film by Vatroslav...
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In 2000, typhoid fever caused an estimated 21.7 million illnesses and 217,000 deaths. It occurs most often in children and young adults between 5 and...
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Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical is a 2001 book by Anthony Bourdain about Mary Mallon a.k.a. "Typhoid Mary", published by Bloomsbury USA. The book is...
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Typhoid Sufferers (Serbo-Croatian: Tifusari) is a 1963 Yugoslav experimental animated short directed by Vatroslav Mimica based on Jure Kaštelan's poem...
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Typhoid adware is a type of computer security threat that uses a Man-in-the-middle attack to inject advertising into web pages a user visits when using...
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In 1964, there was an outbreak of typhoid in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. The first two cases were identified on 20 May 1964; eventually over 400 cases...
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April 1948, during the 1948 Palestine war. The Haganah allegedly used typhoid bacteria to contaminate drinking water wells in violation of the 1925 Geneva...
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Asymptomatic carrier (section Typhoid fever)
critical role in the transmission of common infectious diseases such as typhoid, HIV, C. difficile, influenzas, cholera, tuberculosis, and COVID-19, although...
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Salmonella (redirect from Typhoidal Salmonella)
contaminated by feces. Typhoidal Salmonella serotypes can only be transferred between humans and can cause foodborne illness as well as typhoid and paratyphoid...
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describing the state of mind of those infected. While typhoid means 'typhus-like', typhus and typhoid fever are distinct diseases caused by different types...
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The Maidstone typhoid epidemic (11 September 1897 - 29 January 1898), was the largest typhoid epidemic the UK had experienced. Typhoid is an acute life-threatening...
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Jennie Barmore (redirect from Typhoid Jennie)
Jennie Barmore (popularly known as "Typhoid Jennie") was the operator of a boarding house in Chicago from 1910 until about 1920 who was placed under an...
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Typhoid Sufferers[a] (Serbo-Croatian: Tifusari) is a poem by Croatian writer Jure Kaštelan. The poem depicts hallucinations of typhoid-affected Yugoslav...
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Vi capsular polysaccharide vaccine (redirect from Typhoid polysaccharide vaccine)
polysaccharide vaccine (or ViCPS) is a typhoid vaccine recommended by the World Health Organization for the prevention of typhoid (another is Ty21a). The vaccine...
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millimeters in diameter occurring in patients with enteric fever (which includes typhoid and paratyphoid). These fevers occur following infection by Salmonella...
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Hepatitis A and typhoid vaccine is a combination vaccine to protect against the infectious diseases hepatitis A and typhoid. It is a combination of inactivated...
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the sign of impending death. (The term typhoid facies refers to the staring expression often seen in typhoid fever). "[If the patient's facial] appearance...
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Widal test (category Typhoid fever)
agglutination test for enteric fever or undulant fever whereby bacteria causing typhoid fever is mixed with a serum containing specific antibodies obtained from...
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investigation, Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical, about Mary Mallon, an Irish-born cook believed to have infected 53 people with typhoid fever between...
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best known for discovering Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary, an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever. Soper was the son of George Albert Soper (1837...
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term encompassing two types of salmonellosis, which, specifically, are typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever. Enteric fever is a potentially life-threatening...
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(1900–1904) Manchurian plague (1910–1911) LA pneumonic plague (1924) Croydon typhoid (1937) NYC smallpox (1947) Wrocław smallpox (1963) Yugoslav smallpox (1972)...
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Paratyphoid fever (category Typhoid fever)
Symptoms usually begin 6–30 days after exposure and are the same as those of typhoid fever. Often, a gradual onset of a high fever occurs over several days...
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persistent urban legend, stating that 90,000 people in Chicago died of typhoid fever and cholera in 1885. Although the story is widely reported, these...
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as treating and preventing several diseases. Diseases such as cholera, typhoid and scarlet fever, which were previously rife in China, were nearly eradicated...
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condensed his laboratory discoveries to six potent pathogens: anthrax, typhoid, paratyphoid, glanders, dysentery, and plague-infected human fleas. These...
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