TYPHUS

Typhus is caused by Salmonella typhosa bacteria. Typhus spread by food, drink, feces, and urine brought by flies. Salmonella included in genus bacteria enterobakteria gram negatif, incubation time in our body about 5-12 days.

In Indonesia there are so many people who don’t know the cause and symptomps of this disease. If the victims don’t get help in 30 days it can cause complication, that’s why people have to know yhe symptomp of this disease.
Here is several symptomps of typhus :
• Chills
• Cough
• Delirium
• High fever (104 degrees Fahrenheit)
• Joint pain
• Low blood pressure
• Rash
• Sensitivity to light
• Severe headache
• Severe muscle pain
• Stupor
Preventing is better than curing, so we have to prevent the disease by doing :
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• Be sure to cook eggs all the way through to kill any disease may be present
• Get typhus imunitation
• Have a good rest
• If you ever have this disease don’t do too much activities because this diease can easily flared up again
• Don’t eat unhigienic food
• Wash your hand before eat

Keep having a healthy life and environment clean. If you feeling the symptomp of typhus see your doctor soon and don’t be too close with typhus’s victim.


Nadia Akbarina XII IPA11-20