Typhoid fever, a bacterial infection, is caused by a bacterium called Salmonella typhi. It is a highly contagious disease that can spread throughout the body, affecting many organs.The typhoid is caused by eating or drinking food or water contaminated by the faeces or urine of an infected person. The bacterium is also spread through poor hygiene habits and public sanitation conditions or spread by insects like house fly that feed on faeces of infected people. Typhoid fever is therefore common in countries or places that have poor levels of sanitation or limited access to clean water and over the years, Africa, Central America, Indian subcontinent, South America, South and South East Asia have been the areas with highest rates of typhoid fever.

Symptoms in an infected person begin to manifest six to thirty days of exposure to the bacterium and the symptoms may include high fever, weakness, abdominal pain, diarrhea or constipation and internal bleeding. A person infected may also vomit or develop skin rashes with rose coloured spots or confusion in sever cases. Typhoid fever, however, can be easily treated at home with a 7-14 day course of antibiotics if quickly detected. A more serious case require admission into a hospital where infected person will be treated with antibiotic injections. In a situation where the fever is not treated on time, there are serious complications that can damage the body symptoms. The person may bleed internally, have a section of the digestive system or bowel split open causing a widespread infection all over the body system. An untreated infected person also have 25% more chances of dying than a treated a infected person; very terrible complications. Just imagine all the fatal damage untreated typhoid can cause to your body, that is what a drug resistant typhoid fever can do to your body system!!! A new clone of the bacterium; Salmonella typhi called the H58 has

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