Infectious diseases

Name: Cheering

Year: 1489

Contagions: 21 million cases

Dead: about 200,000 dead

The first reliable description of the disease appears during the siege of the Emirate of Granada by the Catholic monarchs in 1489 during the Granada War. The symptoms described are those of fever and red spots on the arms, back and chest, progressing towards delirium, gangrenous sores and the stench of rotting flesh. During the siege, Catholics lost 3,000 men by enemy action while another 17,000 died of typhus.

Typhoid fever, also known as enteric fever or abdominal typhus, is caused by the bacterium Salmonella enterica serovariante typhi. Man is the only vector of the disease which, if left untreated, has a mortality rate of over 10%.

Typhoid fever is a systemic disease characterized by progressive onset fever.

The transmission can take place directly through the stool or, more frequently, indirectly, through the ingestion of food or drinks handled by infected people or through the contamination, through the sewage discharges, of the water used for drinking or washing the food.

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