Typhoid Fever Research Paper

Rather than being killed in war, most of the deaths on the American side occurred because of malaria, yellow fever, and typhoid.

The diseases that most affected the soldiers,while they were fighting for a cause in the trenches were,Trench Foot,The Trench Influenza and Shell Shock.

Disease, including smallpox, cholera, and venereal diseases, remained one of largest reasons for sickness and death among soldiers and other patients. For soldiers, diseases killed more numbers than wounds received in combat. Such aliments happened due to infected or improperly treated wounds, poor bathing facilities, prostitutes, air borne sicknesses, and several others.

was what made it especially dangerous, there was no known way to control the disease and it was able

Throughout this awful time, many people died. When someone got the illness, it didn't take long for that person to die, it actually took only a few days. This plague caused swollen lymph nodes, fever, exhaustion, and infection in blood and lungs. People and doctors tried to make treatments to stop the sickness, nothing was affetive, though. For example, something that they did

In the early 1900’s medicine was making some steps closer into some great improvements for health and better understanding of the human body. Doctors with sufficient knowledge of the human body and cures for diseases and viruses were scarce. People were much more concerned with government and politics, than health and medicine, until one of the greatest and most grotesque lethal pandemics that’s struck the earth in human history. This pandemic the “Spanish Flu” spread so rapidly and had an extremely high mortality rate. This was caused by the close contact of humans and poor cleanliness and sanitation, and the host (virus) and the body taking harsh action

The Civil War was fought with much carnage, and was one of America’s most ‘uncivilized’, wars with a soldier’s chance of survival about twenty-five per cent. While many were killed by other soldiers, usually through bullets, a large portion died as a result of disease such as: dysentery, mumps, pneumonia, typhoid fever, measles, and tuberculosis, diseases that are curable today. These diseases were spread through the horribly sanitized camps found on both sides of the war: Confederate and Union. And while many died from disease, some died from other soldiers’ bullets; these deaths may have been prevented if the technology, or overall techniques used by surgeons, during this time period were more up-to-date, as amputations were the main procedure

The Civil War was a time of great learning in the medical field. Without these advances, we would live in a completely different world. The question is though, would the same amount of medical supplies and knowledge in both the North or South have changed the eventual outcome of the Civil War? Similar circumstances in medicine would have only affected the mortality rates of both sides, not the outcome of the Civil War. Almost all odds were against the South from the very beginning. It was just a matter of time from the very start.

Dysentery was the number one killer during the Civil War, victims got severe diarrhea with passage of mucous and blood. Closed bowels were treated with the infamous

During the middle age people had lack of knowledge about disease only few people such as physicists or the church would know but not that detail. Even though during the ebola virus struck people still didnt had the cure but they would

During the Civil War, slaves within the Confederacy, had to go through many challenges to survive. One of their challenges included finding the health care they needed to survive the harsh conditions of labor. They suffered from poor sanitation resulting to infections in open wounds and different types of diseases such as smallpox, measles, influenza and more, all depending on where their plantation was settled. Seeking health care was very hard because they were slaves. Some were left with very little options or no options at all. Most of the slaves either depended on their master for healthcare, try to escape the slave owning states to the Union/ the North, or volunteer to be enlisted for the war.

Since overcrowding problems remained during the civil war small pox became very common. Prisoners lived in very small quarters. Small pox spreads faster in smaller places. Therefore, small pox killed so many people at one time. Commanders purposely cut ration sizes and quality for personal profit which led to illness, scurvy and starvation.

Medical care was as scarce as clean water. Basic medical care was rudimentary. Describing the situations as “incredibly unhygienic” would be an understatement. War fatalities were the immediate effects of the Great War and the incredible spread of a disease was a later one. As a matter of fact, more people died from the Great Influenza Pandemic than from World War One (Tauenberger1).

The Middle Ages were tough times when it came to disease and medicine. There were numerous types of sickness and disease that flooded Europe during the Middle Ages. Not helping the situation, the medicinal knowledge of the people of Europe of the time was not up to par. Some of the diseases and illness that were running rampant during these times were pneumonia, leprosy, and the plague. The middle ages were a time of great suffering and death because of the abundant disease and lack of knowledge of the spread and treatments.

Typhoid fever is an intestinal illness, which can result in great suffering and even death. At first it was commonly confused with other fever causing illnesses until 1869 when William Jenner performed a careful analysis and found differences in the different types of typhus fevers. In this paper, I will discuss the bacteria that causes typhoid fever, discuss the signs, symptoms, method of transmission, past and current epidemics, and whether or not there has been a decrease in outbreaks in the past few years.