Tell me about... The difference between typhoid, typhus and parathyroid fevers


How is typhoid fever different from other fevers? Photo: Filepic

I recently read that Oliver Cromwell, the English Civil War leader in the 17th century, actually died of typhoid and malaria. He wasn’t poisoned like some historians believed. This scares me because we recently had a typhoid outbreak in KL. Is typhoid really so dangerous?

It can be without treatment. Typhoid fever can lead to a lot of complications. The most serious one of these is gastrointestinal bleeding and perforation of the walls of your intestine. This can develop in the third week of the disease.

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