Typhoid Fever

Reviewed: September 2017

Typhoid fever is a bacterial infection of the intestinal tract (bowels/gut) and occasionally the bloodstream caused by the Salmonella Typhi bacteria. This strain of bacteria lives only in humans. It is an uncommon disease with only a handful of cases occurring in New York each year. Most of the cases are acquired during foreign travel to underdeveloped countries.

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