Essay On Typhoid Fever

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Typhoid fever is an acute contagious disease which is caused by Salmonella typhi bacteria. It can be transmitted through contaminated food, water, or by a human carrier. Typhoid fever is mostly spread in undeveloped, and polluted countries. Moreover, about 2.5 million people are diagnosed with typhoid fever each year. Without health and medical care, typhoid fever can be life threating disease. Furthermore, typhoid fever can be prevented by taking certain measures such as hygiene, vaccines, and antibiotics.
To begin, typhoid fever can be prevented and treated with antibiotics. Antibiotics are treatments that kill or prevent bacterial infections. Death occur from overwhelming infection, pneumonia, intestinal bleeding, or intestinal perforation. …show more content…

Vaccines create immunity that protects the body from infectious diseases. Most vaccines contain a small amount of the pathogen that cause the disease, which are died or weak. Having a small amount of the pathogen inside the body makes the defensive system build antibodies to fight and kill the microorganism. There are many efforts that have been done by scientists to develop an effective vaccines against typhoid fever. At the present time, only two types of vaccines for typhoid fever are available and being used (Vi PS) and a live attenuated S. vaccines are either given as a capsule or a single dose which should be taken at least a week before travelling to a country that has a widely spread typhoid fever.
Finally, hygiene is an important prevention method against typhoid fever. Typhoid fever can be easily spread from an infected person. Washing hands frequently before and after eating, and using a hand sanitizer will decrease the rate of getting infected. Also drinking bottled water rather than sink water is safer. Furthermore, eating cooked food and avoid eating raw fruits and vegetables is likely to be less contaminated because bacteria die in high

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