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You know how they are occasionally warnings of Salmonella on spinach or veggies. Could this be TYPHOID

 
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You know how they are occasionally warnings of Salmonella on spinach or veggies. Could this be TYPHOID
You know how we are occasionally getting warnings of Salmonella on veggies and fruits, especially imported ones.

Well was just browsing the CDC site and seems Typhoid Fever is Salmonella.

It only lives in the human body and you get it from people not washing their hands or sewage with human feces in it. Mostly from third world countries. Says you should not prepare food if you are a carrier.

Hummm..... how much of our frozen, canned and resturant food is made by people, illegals mostly, from third world countries who have not been medically checked to get into this country????

Say are you guys eating out today?

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Typhoid Fever

For the most current updates about typhoid fever, please visit CDC Travelers' Health.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is typhoid fever spread?
Where in the world do you get typhoid fever?
How can you avoid typhoid fever?
Boil it, cook it, peel it, or forget it
Getting Vaccinated
What are the signs and symptoms of typhoid fever?
What do you do if you think you have typhoid fever?
Typhoid fever's danger doesn't end when symptoms disappear

Typhoid fever is a life-threatening illness caused by the bacterium Salmonella Typhi. In the United States about 400 cases occur each year, and 75% of these are acquired while traveling internationally. Typhoid fever is still common in the developing world, where it affects about 21.5 million persons each year.

Typhoid fever can be prevented and can usually be treated with antibiotics. If you are planning to travel outside the United States, you should know about typhoid fever and what steps you can take to protect yourself.


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How is typhoid fever spread?

***Salmonella Typhi*** lives only in humans. Persons with typhoid fever carry the bacteria in their bloodstream and intestinal tract. In addition, a small number of persons, called carriers , recover from typhoid fever but continue to carry the bacteria. Both ill persons and carriers shed S. Typhi in their feces (stool).

You can get typhoid fever if you eat food or drink beverages that have been handled by a person who is shedding S. Typhi or if sewage contaminated with S. Typhi bacteria gets into the water you use for drinking or washing food. Therefore, typhoid fever is more common in areas of the world where handwashing is less frequent and water is likely to be contaminated with sewage.

Once S. Typhi bacteria are eaten or drunk, they multiply and spread into the bloodstream. The body reacts with fever and other signs and symptoms.

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Where in the world do you get typhoid fever?

Typhoid fever is common in most parts of the world except in industrialized regions such as the United States, Canada, western Europe, Australia, and Japan. Therefore, if you are traveling to the developing world, you should consider taking precautions. Over the past 10 years, travelers from the United States to Asia, Africa, and Latin America have been especially at risk.

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How can you avoid typhoid fever?

Two basic actions can protect you from typhoid fever:

Avoid risky foods and drinks.
Get vaccinated against typhoid fever.
It may surprise you, but watching what you eat and drink when you travel is as important as being vaccinated. This is because the vaccines are not completely effective. Avoiding risky foods will also help protect you from other illnesses, including travelers' diarrhea, cholera, dysentery, and
hepatitis A.

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"Boil it, cook it, peel it, or forget it"

If you drink water, buy it bottled or bring it to a rolling boil for 1 minute before you drink it. Bottled carbonated water is safer than uncarbonated water.
Ask for drinks without ice unless the ice is made from bottled or boiled water. Avoid popsicles and flavored ices that may have been made with contaminated water.
Eat foods that have been thoroughly cooked and that are still hot and steaming.
Avoid raw vegetables and fruits that cannot be peeled. Vegetables like lettuce are easily contaminated and are very hard to wash well.
When you eat raw fruit or vegetables that can be peeled, peel them yourself. (Wash your hands with soap first.) Do not eat the peelings.
Avoid foods and beverages from street vendors. It is difficult for food to be kept clean on the street, and many travelers get sick from food bought from street vendors.

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Getting vaccinated

If you are traveling to a country where typhoid is common, you should consider being vaccinated against typhoid. Visit a doctor or travel clinic to discuss your vaccination options.

Remember that you will need to complete your vaccination at least 1 week before you travel so that the vaccine has time to take effect. Typhoid vaccines lose effectiveness after several years; if you were vaccinated in the past, check with your doctor to see if it is time for a booster vaccination. Taking antibiotics will not prevent typhoid fever; they only help treat it.

The chart below provides basic information on typhoid vaccines that are available in the United States.

Vaccine Name How given Number of doses necessary Time between doses Total time needed to set aside for vaccination Minimum age for vaccination Booster needed every...
Ty21a (Vivotif Berna, Swiss Serum and Vaccine Institute) 1 capsule
by mouth 4 2 days 2 weeks 6 years 5 years
ViCPS (Typhim Vi, Pasteur Merieux) Injection 1 N/A 2 weeks 2 years 2 years



The parenteral heat-phenol-inactivated vaccine (manufactured by Wyeth-Ayerst) has been discontinued.

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What are the signs and symptoms of typhoid fever?

Persons with typhoid fever usually have a sustained fever as high as 103° to 104° F (39° to 40° C). They may also feel weak, or have stomach pains, headache, or loss of appetite. In some cases, patients have a rash of flat, rose-colored spots. The only way to know for sure if an illness is typhoid fever is to have samples of stool or blood tested for the presence of S. Typhi .

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What do you do if you think you have typhoid fever?

If you suspect you have typhoid fever, see a doctor immediately. If you are traveling in a foreign country, you can usually call the U.S. consulate for a list of recommended doctors.

You will probably be given an antibiotic to treat the disease. Three commonly prescribed antibiotics are ampicillin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, and ciprofloxacin. Persons given antibiotics usually begin to feel better within 2 to 3 days, and deaths rarely occur. However, persons who do not get treatment may continue to have fever for weeks or months, and as many as 20% may die from complications of the infection.

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Typhoid fever's danger doesn't end when symptoms disappear

Even if your symptoms seem to go away, you may still be carrying S. Typhi . If so, the illness could return, or you could pass the disease to other people. In fact, if you work at a job where you handle food or care for small children, you may be barred legally from going back to work until a doctor has determined that you no longer carry any typhoid bacteria.

If you are being treated for typhoid fever, it is important to do the following:

Keep taking the prescribed antibiotics for as long as the doctor has asked you to take them.
Wash your hands carefully with soap and water after using the bathroom, and do not prepare or serve food for other people. This will lower the chance that you will pass the infection on to someone else.

Have your doctor perform a series of stool cultures to ensure that no S. Typhi bacteria remain in your body.
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Re: You know how they are occasionally warnings of Salmonella on spinach or veggies. Could this be TYPHOID
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Back in the '70s, I was studying in Spain at the University of Salamanca! Unfortuntely for me, I contracted typhoid fever and wound up in the AngloAmerican hospital in Madrid. At that time, a doctor told me that an aquaintance of his had died of typhoid in the very room in which I was staying. He told me that there are around 26 different types of salmonella, which can cause typhoid! Shock to me! At any rate, I had taken the vaccine for typhoid some weeks before going to Spain, but it did not keep me from getting typhoid. I was told that it may have lessened the severity of the disease, but even so, I wound up in the hospital and was also quarantined to my apartment for three weeks! Typhoid is a very dangerous disease!
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Re: You know how they are occasionally warnings of Salmonella on spinach or veggies. Could this be TYPHOID
theres nothing wrong with the spinich. the fed is imposing more fascist farm regulations.
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Re: You know how they are occasionally warnings of Salmonella on spinach or veggies. Could this be TYPHOID
Back in the '70s, I was studying in Spain at the University of Salamanca! Unfortuntely for me, I contracted typhoid fever and wound up in the AngloAmerican hospital in Madrid. At that time, a doctor told me that an aquaintance of his had died of typhoid in the very room in which I was staying. He told me that there are around 26 different types of salmonella, which can cause typhoid! Shock to me! At any rate, I had taken the vaccine for typhoid some weeks before going to Spain, but it did not keep me from getting typhoid. I was told that it may have lessened the severity of the disease, but even so, I wound up in the hospital and was also quarantined to my apartment for three weeks! Typhoid is a very dangerous disease!
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I was very surprised to read that Salmonella causes the disease typhoid. I always thought Ecoli was the baddie and Salmonella was just some little chicken disease not to worry about unless your immune system is low.

Glad you came out ok.

I recall reading some history of how they would keep whole shiploads of people from docking if they had typoid on the ship it was so dangerous. It spread so badly even getting in the cities drinking water if they pulled water from a river near the docks where the ship was located. One incident of Typhoid on a ship in the early 1900's I am thinking of right now.

No wonder they keep health standards for legal immigrants.

The illegals are just walking in with who knows what and working cooking our food and other food processing/handling jobs. Scary.
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Re: You know how they are occasionally warnings of Salmonella on spinach or veggies. Could this be TYPHOID
Of course cleaniness is a big thing. There is another one that is almost unspoken, and that is Typhus. It is human lice born.
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Re: You know how they are occasionally warnings of Salmonella on spinach or veggies. Could this be TYPHOID
Cholera is another far deadlier than Typhoid killer. It is the reason you want to either rolling boil your water for at least a minute before you wash anything with it, or drink it, or use it in food preparation, or use chorline in your water system.

Typhoid, Typhus, and Cholera are three diseases we do not see much of in the USA, not like this country did before the advent of cholrinated public water systems and public cleanliness lectures at school and home. However these three diseases killed off millions of Americans in the 1600's-early 1900's.





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