Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1907 — May Carry Typhoid Long. [ARTICLE]

May Carry Typhoid Long.

Dr. J. H. Townsend of the Connect!cut Board of Health reports that the bacillus of typhoid may be carried for years after an attack of the disease with* out any apparent inconvenience to the patient and without his knowledge of tha fact. Kutscher, a German expert, ia quoted as saying that about 4 per cent of the typhoid patients become chronic carriers of typhoid bacilli. Although such, persons may be in good health, they may infect those with whom they come in contact. All this is confirmed by the recent case of a cook who had served in several New York families. In every family her presence was followed by an outbreak of , typhoid. It was known that the cook herself badjsuffered an attack of the sain* disease formeWy and an enforced examination showed that she still carried the bacllU. Z_2—,—... .