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QUINCY (CBS) – On Thursday it was confirmed that a child at a daycare and preschool in North Quincy had been diagnosed with typhoid fever, a disease rarely found in the United States. For many, the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The incidence of enteric (typhoid) fever in travelers is estimated to be ∼3-30 cases per 100,000 travelers to developing countries. Recently, ...

Common in many parts of the world, it spreads through contaminated food and water. The tricky part? Its symptoms can be mistaken for many other illnesses. The symptoms of typhoid fever can sneak up on ...

Scientists have for many years debated the cause of the Plague of Athens. Analysis carried out by Manolis Papagrigorakis and colleagues using DNA collected from teeth from an ancient Greek burial pit ...

Once upon a time, the best way to prevent and eliminate a food- and water-borne disease like typhoid fever was by improving sanitation and hygiene. Today, however, despite decades of progress with ...

Typhoid fever arises from infection with a bacteria called Salmonella typhii. This bacterial strain is primarily spread via the feco-oral route. The bacteria are passed from the body of an infected ...

In fall of 1921, about two years after the Spanish Flu epidemic struck Berks County, officials were concerned about an outbreak of typhoid fever. After 28 workers in Penn Pants Co. in West Reading ...

Typhoid fever is one of the oldest documented diseases known to have afflicted mankind but what makes it so lethal has remained a mystery for centuries. In a study appearing online July 10 in the ...

Salmonella typhi is a particularly nasty bacterium that targets only humans and causes typhoid fever, which kills hundreds of thousands of people annually. In a new study appearing in the Nov. 16 ...

Health officials in Saskatchewan Canada are urging customers of Domino’s Pizza in Martensville to watch for symptoms of typhoid fever. The restaurant’s customers may have been exposed to Salmonella ...

GUILDERLAND, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The superintendent of Guilderland schools informed the district that one of its students tested positive for typhoid fever. The student attends Guilderland Elementary ...