Typhoid Fever
The fever that's killing thousands
What is it?
How can you get it?
What are the symptoms?
Week 1: Headache that gets worse as the week goes on, weakness, dry cough, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, and rashes
Week 2: Diarrhea or severe constipation, considerable weight loss, extremely distended abdomen.
Week 3: Become delirious, lie motionless and exhausted with your eyes half-closed.
See a doctor immediately if you suspect that you have Typhoid Fever.
How is it treated?
How can I prevent it?
Facts
~It can come from food not prepared right and drinks.
~It can't fully be treated and you may become a carrier.
~Most untreated patients die.
Famous people who died from it
1. Franz Schubert
2. Wilbur Wright
3. George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr.
4. Arnold Bennett
5. Princess Elisabeth of Hesse
6. Gerard Manley Hopkins
7. Lord George Gordon
8. Eugnia Tadolini
9. Take Lonescu
10. Willard Louis
11.Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rose berry
12. Albert, Prince Consort
13. Franz Bendel
14. Edward Burgess
15. Godfrey Weitzel
16. Stephan A. Douglas
17. Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales
18. Nadezda Petrovic
19. Mark Hanna
20. John Bell Hatcher
21. John Taylor
22. Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
23. Martha Bulloch Roosevelt
24. Herman Dehlman
25. Francis Greenway
26. Hakaru Hashimoto
27. Ume Kenjiro
28. Jessie Cherry
29. Rual Proenca
30. Elisabeth Pepys
31. Infante Fernando of Portugal
32. August Ritter van Trapp
33. Hugh Conway
34. Edward James
35. Gyoshu Hayami
36. Henry Spencer Palmer
37. Charles Scribner 1
38. Rafael Moreno Aranzadi
39. Bernie Graham
40. Panchanan Mitra
41.WIlliam Wallace Lincoln
42. George J. Adams
43. Bernard Durning
44. Etienne Desmarteau
45. Prince Mircea of Romania
46. John P. Yount
47. Robert Juckes Clifton
48. Moses Wisner
49. Gerald Portal
50. Hub Collins
51. Guillaume Lekeu
52. Darby O'Brien
53. Ernest Genval
54. Herbert Ward
55. Gonville Bromhead
56. Princess Leopoldina of Brazil
57. Katherine McKinley
58. Leland Stanford Jr.
59. Alice Mary Smith
60. Charles Kettle
61. Herb Alward
62. Ignacio Zaragoza
63. Richard Sandford
64. Alexander Cameron Sim
65. Lucien Muhlfeld
66. Jack Jones
67. Maria de Lourdes Pereira dos Santos Van-Dunem
68. George Hunt
69. John Cottam
70. George Stumhope
71. Charles E. DeLong
72. Jean-Martin Moye
73. Nicholas Wood
74. Helen Kelsall Melland
75. Annebelle Conley
Quote
.. in time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever.
[Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.]