Description and Symptoms of Typhoid Fever

Typhoid Fever is caused by a bacterium called Salmonella Typhi. Once this deadly bacterium enters your blood steam it is all downhill from there. About 3% of individuals affected by Typhoid Fever will recover; in many cases people are cleared as healthy. This allows 3%-5% of healthy individuals to act as carriers and infect those with weak immune systems. “About 3%-5% of patients become carriers of the bacteria after the acute illness.” (Typhoid Fever, Med.)   Worldwide there have been 16million cases reported to health care providers. Most of the cases show that the patients traveled to countries where sanitation is not common. Salmonella Typhi is able to survive ingestion by the phagocytes and then multiply. 10% of the patients infected will show signs of relapses and start from point a. People infected by Salmonella Typhi at 1^st, will show signs of flu symptoms like: fever, mild abdominal pain, and headache. Then the symptoms start to increase, and patients will start to experience a poor appetite, generalized aches and pains, lethargy, intestinal bleeding or perforation.So patients show symptoms like: diarrhea or constipation, meningitis, and a fever that higher than 100, but lower than 140, and this will last about 3-4 weeks. If Salmonella is not treated right away symptoms become worse. “Carriers of S.Typhi must be treated even when they do not show any symptoms of the infection, because carriers are responsible for the majority of new cases of Typhoid Fever.” (Typhoid fever.)