WHO Fact Sheet - Typhoid Fever
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Description: History, identification, occurrence, transmission, communicability, epidemic measures, disaster implications, prevention, and vaccination/travel advisory by the World Health Organization.
Typhoid fever is a bacterial disease, caused by . It is transmitted through the ingestion of food or drink contaminated by the faeces or urine of infected people. Symptoms usually develop 1–3 weeks after exposure, and may be mild or severe. They include high fever, malaise, headache, constipation or diarrhoea, rose-coloured spots on the chest, and enlarged spleen and liver. Healthy carrier state may follow acute illness.
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| Page title: | WHO | Typhoid fever |
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| Description: | Typhoid fever: WHO health topic page on typhoid fever provides links to descriptions of activities, reports, publications, statistics, news, multimedia and events, as well as contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programmes and offices working on this topic. |
| IP-address: | 81.22.38.106 |
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| Date | created: 1998-06-05 changed: 2007-06-22 |