typhoid

Typhoid fever is simply a bacterial infection that comes largely from contaminated food, water of sewer. But It’s not just a fever it make holes inside human’s intestine and can infect many other organs in your body and its uniquely evolving to become more and more drug resistant.

Typhoid fever is caused by some Salmonella bacteria, Salmonellosis  is transmitting via infected animals and is consumed usually by raw meat or eggs, typhoid is different as it only infects humans, but it is pretty good in surviving outside its human host until it gets picked again like by someone drinking contaminated water.

Normally a healthy person can overcome the fever as they have good amount of stomach acids which will kills these bacteria’s, children and adults who do not produce a lot of stomach acid are more likely to be infected.

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