Typhoid or typhoid fever is a serious infectious disease that produces fever and diarrhoea and can cause death. It is spread by dirty water or food. a serious infectious disease that is caused by dirty food or drink (typhus). or typhoid fever Acute infectious disease resembling typhus (and distinguished from it only in the 19th century). Salmonella typhi, usually ingested in food or water, multiplies in the intestinal wall and then enters the bloodstream, causing septicemia. Symptoms begin with headache, aching, and restlessness. High fever gradually develops, with delirium. A rash appears on the trunk. The sites where the bacilli multiplied become inflamed and may ulcerate, leading to intestinal bleeding or peritonitis. Patients become exhausted and emaciated; up to 25% die if not treated. Antibiotic treatment is effective. Patients can carry typhoid for weeks to months or years. Carriers can contaminate the food they handle. Prevention depends mainly on water and sewage treatment and excluding carriers from food-handling jobs
{i} typhoid fever, contagious often fatal disease caused by Salmonella bacteria ingested by consumption of contaminated food or drink (symptoms include fever, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and an abdominal rash)
Typhoid fever is contracted when people eat food or drink water that has been infected It is recognized by the sudden onset of sustained fever, severe headache, nausea and severe loss of appetite It is sometimes accompanied by hoarse cough and constipation or diarrhoea
Of or pertaining to typhus; resembling typhus; of a low grade like typhus; as, typhoid symptoms
an Irishwoman in the US who had the disease typhoid, and who was believed to have infected many people with it. The name is sometimes used to mean someone who is avoided because they are expected to cause a lot of trouble or problems (died 1938). byname of Mary Mallon born 1870? died Nov. 11, 1938, North Brother Island, N.Y., N.Y., U.S. U.S. carrier of typhoid. A 1904 typhoid epidemic on Long Island was traced to households where she had been a cook. She fled, but authorities finally caught up with her and isolated her on an island off the Bronx. In 1910 she was released after agreeing not to take a food-handling job, but she did, causing more typhoid outbreaks. She was returned to the island for the rest of her life. Three deaths and 51 original cases were directly attributed to her
{i} transmitter of anything undesirable; person who spreads a disease, insult for a person who is held responsible for spreading a disease; insulting term for a person who spreads something undesirable (such as bad news, pessimism, etc.)
An infectious illness usually spread by contamination of food, milk, or water supplies with the bacterium Salmonella typhi, either directly by sewage, indirectly by flies, or by faulty personal hygiene Fever, abdominal pain, malaise, prostration, and diarrhea or constipation are common Without antibiotics, about 15% of cases can be fatal Treatment with antibiotics has reduced mortality to less than 1% in the US Modern, highly effective vaccines are recommended for travel to endemic areas
An acute, highly infectious disease caused by a bacillus (Salmonella typhi) transmitted chiefly by contaminated food or water and characterized by high fever, headache, coughing, intestinal hemorrhaging, and rose-colored spots on the skin. Also called enteric fever