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Typhoid Fever Typhoid Fever is a disease that can be passed on by contaminated food or water. The food and water becomes contaminated when feces and/or urine come in contact. This disease is caused by a bacterium, or groups of microorganisms called Salmonella Typhi. It is said that there are over 1,000 other strains of the bacteria and Salmonella Typhi and very few others actually cause Typhoid Fever (WHO Press Releases 2). During the mid-nineteenth century a man named Sir William Jenner was the first to define Typhoid Fever. Jenner discovered there was a difference between Typhoid Fever and Typhus, which many people were contaminated with at that time. Later in 1880 Karl J Erberth isolated the organism, the first to do so, and he was then able to study and learn more about it (WHO Press Releases 1). Years later in 1906 was the first actual outbreak of Typhoid fever, all started by a woman named Mary Mallon in New York. Mallon worked as a cook in and around the New York area and was a carrier of the bacterium Salmonella Typhi. During the time Mallon worked as a cook she infected fifty three people that they can trace back to Mallon.
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