Dr Pete's Health Secrets

          Typhoid fever is a life-threatening infection that is caused by Salmonella typhi bacteria .  A less severe form of typhoid can be caused by the Salmonella paratyphi bacteria. They are collectively referred to as Enteric fevers. Travellers especially backpackers , volunteers to community projects , solo travellers, YouTubers and all those adventuring off the beaten track to exotic parts of the world in Asia, Africa and South America , need to have a high index of suspicion.  Usually, a person contracts typhoid by drinking or consuming contaminated food and water.  However, you can also get the infection by coming into close contact with an infected person.  Sadly,  typhoid though endemic in the Tropics and sub-tropical regions of the world, is now being overdiagnosed with many cases of fever labelled as ' Malaria and Thyphoid '. Symptoms of typhoid fever include pain in the abdomen, diarrhoea or constipation, heada...