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Timeline of Typhoid Fever
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This is a Timeline of typhoid fever, describing major events such as scientific/medical developments and notable epidemics.

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1. Big Picture

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Year/period Key developments
1890s Several different researchers work on the idea of protection against typhoid fever at the same time.[1]
20th Century Throughout the century, the incidence of typhoid fever steadily declines, due to the introduction of vaccinations and improvements in public sanitation and hygiene. In particular, the water chlorination would significantly reduce the incidence of typhoid fever among the population.[2]
1980s Antibiotics like fluoroquinolones such as ciprofloxacin and ofloxacin become widespread especially in countries where multidrug resistance is a problem.[3]
Recent years According to the World Health Organization, there are about 22 million cases of typhoid fever and 200,000 deaths annually.[1][3][4]

2. Full Timeline

Number of confirmed typhoid-paratyphoid fever reported cases in European countries in the period 2008–2012, illustrating the proportion among countries. Highest rates were given in Northwestern Europe and Scandinavia.[5] https://handwiki.org/wiki/index.php?curid=1410290
Number of cases and deaths due to typhoid fever, by outbreak. Higher death rates are noticeable in earlier outbreaks.[6] https://handwiki.org/wiki/index.php?curid=1503849
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Year or period Type of event Event Geographical location
460–377 BC Scientific development Greek physician Hippocrates describes clinical features resembling typhoid fever.[7] Greece
430–424 BC Epidemic Typhoid fever epidemic ravages Athens, whiping out about one third of its population.[8] Greece
1643 Scientific development English physician Thomas Willis describes typhoid fever in his Treatise on Fevers.[7][9] United Kingdom
1826 Scientific development French worker Pierre Bretonneau describes the constancy of intestinal lessions and attempts to clarify the pathology of typhoid fever.[7] France
1829 Medical development French physician Pierre Charles Alexander Louis becomes the first to use the word Thyphoide.[7]  
1836 Medical development William Wood Gerhard differentiates typhus and typhoid as two distinct clinical entities and establishes the differential clinical and pathological features of both diseases.[7]  
1838 Medical development English epidemiologist William Budd, while treating an outbreak of typhoid, notes that the poison (as he then calls it) is present in the excretions of the infected and could be transmitted to healthy people through contaminated water consumption. Upon realizing this association, Budd suggests isolating excrement to help control future outbreaks.[2][10] United Kingdom
1842 Scientific development John Goodsir describes differences in pathological lessons between typhus and typhoid fever.[7] United Kingdom (Edinburgh)
1861–1865 Epidemic About 80,000 soldiers die as a result of typhoid fever or dysentery in the American Civil War.[2] United States
1874 Scientific development Leydon links typhoid to symptoms in the nervous system. For some time typhoid fever would be described as brain fever and nervous fever.[7]  
1880 Scientific development Kart Joseph Ebert first demonstrates the presence of bacterium salmonella typhi in the histologic sections of spleen and mesenteric glands of patients who had died of typhoid fever.[7][9]  
1885 Scientific development German bacteriologists Richard Pfeiffer first discovers the presence of typhus–causing bacterium salmonella typhi in stools.[7] Germany
1886 Scientific development German bacteriologist Ferdinand Adolph Hueppe demonstrates the presence of typhus–causing bacterium salmonella typhi in urine.[7]  
1894 Scientific development Austrian pathologist Hans Chiari successfully cultures typhoid bacillus in gallblader.[7]  
1896 Scientific development German bacteriologists Richard Pfeiffer and Wilhelm Kolle demonstrate that inoculation with killed typhoid bacteria results in human immunity against typhoid fever.[1] Germany
1896 Scientific development French physicians Émile Achard and Raoul Bensaude isolate bacterium salmonella paratyphi B and are the first to use the term paratyphoid fever.[7] France
1896 Scientific development George Widal develops a typhoid fever diagnostic using the serum of patients who are recovering from the disease.[7][9]  
1897 Medical development British bacteriologist Almroth Wright develops a vaccine prepared from killed typhoid bacilli as a preventive of typhoid.[1] United Kingdom
1897–1898 Epidemic Typhoid fever epidemic breaks out in Maidstone, England, involving 2,000 people and claiming 143 lives.[6] United Kingdom
1899–1902 Epidemic Second Boer War. Typhoid fever is estimated to be the cause of twice as many deaths as from weapons.[7] In an outbreak in 1900 in Bloemfontein, 5,000 cases and 143 deaths are calculated.[6] South Africa
1906 Epidemic Typhoid fever epidemic breaks out in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, involving 9,712 people and claiming 63 lives.[6] United States
1907–1915 Infection Irish immigrant Mary Mallon (better known as Typhoid Mary) becomes the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever. Presumed to have infected 51 people (three of whom die), Mary Mallon would be forcibly isolated for quarantine purposes twice in her life, once in 1907 and again in 1915. The second time she would not be released, dying in isolation at the age of 69.[2][9][11] United States
1909 Medical development United States Army physician Frederick F. Russell develops a perfected typhoid fever vaccine, and the first in the United States. Russell would begin immunizing volunteers in the army, and after demonstrating its effectiveness, the army would make would make typhoid immunization compulsory, reducing the rate from 243 to 4.41 in three years.[1][12][13] United States
1914 Campaign Typhoid vaccination moves beyond military forces and are released for the general public.[1] United States
1927 Epidemic Typhoid fever epidemic breaks out in Montreal . 5,353 cases and 538 deaths are recorded. Milk is found to be the source of the outbreak.[6] Canada
1948 Medical development American medical researcher Theodore Woodward and colleagues publish the first report on the use of Chloramphenicol for the treatment of typhoid fever. Chloroamphenicol would revolutionize the field by reducing both morbidity and mortality.[3][7][9][14]  
1953 Scientific development Antibacterial agent furazolidone is reported effective in vitro for treating common species of salmonella. The drug would later be used for the treatment against typhoid fever.[7][15]  
1961 Medical development Ampicillin is introduced for the treatment against typhoid fever.[7][16]  
1969 Medical development Antibiotic agent Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole(also known as co-trimoxazole) is introduced. The drug would prove to be effective in the treatment against typhoid fever.[7][17]  
1972 Medical development Researchers from Beecham Group develop antibiotic amoxicillin. It would prove to be very effective against typhoid fever, reducing the risk of the carrier state. Amoxicilin is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines.[7][18]  
1972–1973 Epidemic Typhoid fever epidemic breaks out in Mexico City, involving 9,000 cases. Contamination of a municipal water supply is found to be the source of the outbreak.[6] Mexico
1975–1976 Epidemic Typhoid fever epidemic breaks out in Maharashtra. 2,343 cases and 39 deaths are calculated.[6] Mexico
1986 Medical development Researchers at the United States National Institutes of Health develop an injectable subunit vaccine Vi-polysaccharide vaccine (sold as Typhim Vi by Sanofi Pasteur and Typherix by GlaxoSmithKline), for immunization against typhoid fever.[3] United States
1993 Epidemic Typhoid fever epidemic breaks out in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Contamination of water supplies is associated. Over 1000 cases are reported.[19] South Africa
1997 Epidemic Quinolone-resistant typhoid breaks out in Tajikistan, involving 8,000 people and claiming 150 lives.[20] Tajikistan
2001 Epidemic Typhoid fever epidemic breaks out in vaccinated members of the French Armed Forces in Ivory Coast.[21] Ivory Coast
2007 Medical development Live attenuated vaccine (DV-STM-07) is developed for immunization against typhoid fever.[3]  
2012 Epidemic Typhoid fever epidemic breaks out in Harare, Zimbabwe. Contaminated water sources are associated. As of 2017, the epidemic is still ongoing, with over 4,000 cases diagnosed to date.[19] Zimbabwe

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