La Louisiane stretched from the mouth of the Mississippi River to present-day Canada, and approximately covered the present-day U.S. states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Typhoid fever is contracted by drinking or eating the bacteria in contaminated food or water. People with acute illness can contaminate the surrounding water supply through stool, which contains a high concentration of the bacteria. Contamination of the water supply can, in turn, taint the food supply.
1 Typhoid fever is contracted by the ingestion of contaminated food or water. 2  Diagnosis of typhoid fever is made when the Salmonella bacteria is detected with a stool culture. 3  Typhoid fever is treated with antibiotics. 4  Typhoid fever symptoms are poor appetite, headaches, generalized aches and pains, fever, and lethargy.