An Unusually Extensive Milk-Borne Outbreak of Typhoid Fever

An Outbreak of Typhoid Fever Due to Milk Infection

A consideration of the Edinburgh notification statistics tends to show that the season of greatest prevalence of typhoid fever is during the three autumnal months?September, October, and November. This coincides generally with the statistics of other places in the United Kingdom, and also with Buchan and Mitchell's curve, based on the mortality returns of London. In fact, typhoid fever remains ...

An outbreak of domestically acquired typhoid fever in Queens, NY.

In the summer of 2000, an outbreak of endemic typhoid fever involved 6 people in Queens, NY, and a seventh person in Manhattan, NY. An investigation by the New York City Department of Health traced the likely source to an immigrant employee working at a local restaurant. The clinical presentations of 4 cases seen at New York Hospital Queens, Flushing, a 500-bed hospital, mimicked viral hepatiti...

On an Outbreak of Typhoid Fever at Wing, Bucks

An application having been made at St. George's Hospital in the middle of February last, that a physician should visit the village of Wing for the purpose of investigating its sanitary condition, I undertook to go there, and devoted February 16th and the following day to the inquiry. The parish of Wing consisted at the last census of 1502 inhabitants, of whom one-third is scattered through four...

An Outbreak of Typhoid Fever in Beyrout, Syria

night later a large number of people fell ill with fever, and it soon became clear that we had to deal with a widespread epidemic of typhoid. The attacks were, approximately speaking, simultaneous, and, if allowance be made for a short difference in the stage of incubation, the vast majority of the cases were probably infected on the same day. Not less, perhaps, than 2,000 cases, which is about...

A Milk Borne Epidemic of Typhoid Fever Traced to a Urinary Carrier.