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Origin of typhoid
Explanation
One of the worst infectious diseases in the world is typhoid. If Salmonella typhosa is in your food or water, you could catch typhoid. Typhoid consists of intestinal inflammation plus ulceration: that means your stomach is going to hurt, and you will probably spend a lot of time in the bathroom (possibly experiencing distress at both ends of your body). Typhoid often occurs in places with poor sanitation.
Vocabulary lists containing typhoid
"The Witches" by Roald Dahl, Chapters 1–5
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Example Sentences
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It’s a particularly exuberant tortoise nicknamed Typhoid Mary, who got the nickname because she harbors a contagious bacteria that causes upper respiratory tract disease.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2024
Typhoid fever is a common infection in many low- and middle-income countries and causes an estimated 135,000 deaths and 14 million infections globally each year.
From Science Daily • Feb. 15, 2024
“At the beginning, really, we were just going about living our lives as normal people, and all of a sudden, we were sort of Typhoid Mary in Newsweek magazine,” he said.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 9, 2022
With my car’s Virginia license plates, I might as well be Typhoid Mary.
From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2020
Typhoid fever is a rare affection here, and a majority of the cases seen occur in persons recently from the country.
From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Casseday, Ben
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