2. Guiding
Questions
1. What is Typhoid Fever?
2. Where does Typhoid Fever occur?
3. Prevention of Typhoid Fever
4. Symptoms of Typhoid Fever
5. What is the treatment for Typhoid Fever?
6. Death rates of Typhoid Fever from 1900-1960
3. What is Typhoid Fever?
Typhoid fever is a disease that is caused by
salmonella typhus.
Typhoid fever is also a rash that’s called rose spots.
Rose spots mostly appear on the chest but
sometimes on the abdomen.
Typhoid fever is a disease that is also caused by
uncooked foods like steak.
Typhoid fever is a bacterial illness.
This disease has over 107 different bacterias.
5. Where does Typhoid Fever occur?
Typhoid fever mostly occurs in Africa.
Here are some other places typhoid fever occurs:
Asia, Central and South America, Canada,
Western Europe, Australia, Japan, and Latin
America.
7. Why does Typhoid Fever occur there?
Typhoid fever mainly occurs in Africa because lots
of Africa’s water sources are contaminated with
salmonella, feces and other bacteria’s.
Typhoid fever occurs in Africa because of their
unsanitized water.
Typhoid fever occurs in other places also because of
unsanitized water too.
8. Prevention of Typhoid Fever?
Stay away from uncooked foods, especially
uncooked meat.
The safest way to drink water in foreign countries,
like Africa, is to boil your water for at least 1
minute.
Eat food hot so you know it’s cooked or take the
temperature with a cooking thermometer.
Wash your hands before cooking and eating.
Clean your food(s) before preparing them.
9. Symptoms of Typhoid Fever?
Chest rash (rose spots)
Thirst
Slow heartbeat
Mild vomiting
Loss of appetite
11. Treatments for Typhoid Fever
Typhoid fever can be treated with antibiotics.
The antibiotics are given intravenously (in the
vein) or it can be given by mouth.
You can get a vaccine to prevent getting Typhoid fever
by either shot or a drink.
Antibiotics are given to kill the bacteria in your
body.
