Still considered strongly endemic in many developing countries, what is the common name for the bacterial infection caused by a specific type of Salmonella that starts with a gradual onset of a high fever and caused ~150,000 deaths in 2019? The disease was first described by Karl Joseph Eberth and one of the WHO-approved vaccines is the oral Ty21a treatment.

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1. Still considered strongly endemic in many developing countries, what is the common name for the bacterial infection caused by a specific type of Salmonella that starts with a gradual onset of a high fever and caused ~150,000 deaths in 2019? The disease was first described by Karl Joseph Eberth and one of the WHO-approved vaccines is the oral Ty21a treatment.