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.
Key Takeaways: 1  Typhoid fever spreads through consuming contaminated food or water. 2  More than 21.5 million people worldwide contract typhoid fever every year. 3  Typhoid is most common in areas where sanitation is poor.  The typhoid vaccine comes in either oral or injectable 1  form. Get vaccinated against typhoid fever.