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Typhoid And The Island

Typhoid, unlike smallpox, is a peculiar disease that breeds a much smaller amount of casualties; although it kills 10% of victims or more if left untreated. It is caused by a particular strain of the salmonella bacteria called salmonella typhi.

Most people when infected with salmonella typhi become sick shortly afterwards. They develop a fever (typhoid fever from which the disease takes its name) and then a rash followed by a wide-range of fairly unpleasant complications. Assuming that the person makes it through three weeks of infection, then it is likely that the disease will be beaten off by the body’s immune system and the victim will return to health. However, there are some rare people that don’t get sick from salmonella typhi.