Editing Typhoid fever (section)

==Society and culture==
===Notable people===
{{see also|Category:Deaths from typhoid fever}}
* [[Augustus|Emperor Augustus]] of Rome – suspected based on historical record but not confirmed.<ref name=":1" /> He had either a liver abscess or typhoid fever, and survived by using ice baths and cold compresses as a means of treatment for his fever.<ref name=":1" /> The idea for this treatment was provided by Greek physician [[Antonius Musa]].<ref name="musa">{{cite book |last1=Platner |first1=Samuel Ball |title=A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome |last2=Ashby |first2=Thomas |date=2002 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199256495}}</ref><ref name="Musa_2">{{cite journal |last1=Yapijakis |first1=C. |date=2009 |title=Hippocrates of Kos, the father of clinical medicine, and Asclepiades of Bithynia, the father of molecular medicine. Review. |journal=In Vivo (Athens, Greece) |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=507–514 |pmid=19567383 |quote="The Greek physician Antonius Musa notably cured the emperor Augustus of typhoid fever with cold baths"}}</ref>
* [[Albert, Prince Consort]], husband of [[Queen Victoria]] of the United Kingdom, died 24 days after the first record of "feeling horribly ill".<ref name=":1" /> Died 14 December 1861 after suffering<!-- !  check for tone --> loss of appetite, insomnia, fever, chills, profuse sweating, vomiting, rash spots, delusions, inability to recognize family members, worsening rash on abdomen, a change in tongue color, then finally a state of extreme fatigue.<ref name=":1" /> Attending physician [[Sir William Jenner, 1st Baronet|William Jenner]], an expert on typhoid fever at the time, diagnosed him.<ref>{{Cite book| vauthors = Darby E |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10432279|title=The cult of the Prince Consort|date=1983|publisher=Yale University Press|others=Nicola Smith|isbn=0-300-03015-0|location=New Haven|oclc=10432279}}</ref>
* [[Edward VII]] of the UK, son of [[Queen Victoria]], while still Prince of Wales, had a near-fatal case of typhoid fever.<ref>{{cite ODNB|author-link=Colin Matthew|vauthors=Matthew HC|date=September 2004|publication-date=May 2006|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32975|title=Edward VII (1841–1910)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160302022125/http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32975|archive-date=2016-03-02|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/32975}}</ref>
* [[Nicholas II of Russia|Tsar Nicholas II of Russia]], survived, illness was circa 1900–1901.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nicholas II - At the Court of the Last Tsar - Chapter 1, Part 2, The Empress Alexandra|url=https://www.alexanderpalace.org/mossolov/one2.html|access-date=2021-06-21|website=www.alexanderpalace.org}}</ref>{{Self-published inline|date=November 2021|certain=y}}
* Queen [[Wilhelmina of the Netherlands]] may have had an abortion in 1902 because of a typhoid infection she survived.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/nederland/artikel/5379059/wilhelmina-abortus-juliana-tyfus-infectie-bevalling |title=Hoogleraar heeft aanwijzingen voor abortus bij Wilhelmina: 'Monarchie hing aan zijden draadje' (''Professor has indication for abortion Wilhelmina: Monarchy was hanging by a thread'') |website=RTL Nieuws |date=2023-04-19 |language=Dutch }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.letterenfonds.nl/en/book/1603/egg-foetus-baby |title=Egg Foetus Baby, A New History of Pregnancy |author=Trudy Dehue |website=Dutch foundation for literature |access-date=2023-12-06 |archive-date=2024-03-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240317003500/https://www.letterenfonds.nl/en/book/1603/egg-foetus-baby |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[William Henry Harrison]], the ninth [[President of the United States|President]] of the [[United States|United States of America]], died 32 days into his term, in 1841. This is the shortest term served by a United States President.
* [[Wilbur Wright]], co-inventor of the airplane with his brother Orville, died from typhoid in 1912 at the age of 45. Orville had typhoid in 1896, during which time Wilbur would read aloud to him, books by [[Otto Lilienthal]], a German pioneer in human flight.  This started the two men on their own pursuit of creating an airplane.
* [[Stephen A. Douglas]], a political opponent of Abraham Lincoln in 1858 and 1860, died of typhoid on June 3, 1861.
* [[Ignacio Zaragoza]], a Mexican general and politician, died at the age of 33 of typhoid fever on September 8, 1862.
* [[Franz Schubert]], songwriter and composer died of typhoid at age 31 on November 19, 1828. 
* [[William Wallace Lincoln]], the son of US president [[Abraham Lincoln|Abraham]] and [[Mary Todd Lincoln|Mary Todd]] Lincoln, died at the age of 11 years of typhoid in 1862.<ref>{{cite news | vauthors = Dennis B |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/willie-lincolns-death-a-private-agony-for-a-president-facing-a-nation-of-pain/2011/0929/gIQAv7Z7SL_story.html|title=Willie Lincoln's death: A private agony for a president facing a nation of pain|date=2011-09-29|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2017-03-12|issn=0190-8286|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170401111805/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/willie-lincolns-death-a-private-agony-for-a-president-facing-a-nation-of-pain/2011/09/29/gIQAv7Z7SL_story.html|archive-date=2017-04-01}}</ref>
*  [[Princess Leopoldina of Brazil]], daughter of [[Pedro II of Brazil|Emperor Pedro II]], died of typhoid in 1871.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aventurasnahistoria.uol.com.br/noticias/almanaque/maldicao-febre-e-alucinacoes-melancolica-morte-de-leopoldina-de-braganca.phtml |title=Maldiçãp, febre e alucinações: a melancólica morte de Leopoldina de Bragança|website=aventurasnahistoria.uol.com.br|date=June 7, 2020 |access-date=February 3, 2022}}</ref>
*  [[Martha Bulloch Roosevelt]], mother of president [[Theodore Roosevelt]] and paternal grandmother of [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], died of typhoid fever in 1884.
* [[Mary Mallon]], "Typhoid Mary" – see history section, "carriers" for further details
* [[Leland Stanford Jr.]], son of American tycoon and politician A. [[Leland Stanford]] and eponym of [[Stanford University|Leland Stanford Junior University]], died of typhoid fever in 1884 at the age of 15.<ref>{{cite web |title=A History of Stanford |url=https://www.stanford.edu/about/history/ |website=Stanford University |access-date=4 July 2018}}</ref>
* Three of [[Louis Pasteur]]'s five children died of typhoid fever.<ref name=":1" />
* [[Gerard Manley Hopkins]], an English poet, died of typhoid fever in 1889.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Ruggles E | date = 1944 | title = Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life | url = https://archive.org/details/gerardmanleyhopk0000unse_e4k5 | url-access = registration | publisher = Norton }}</ref>
* [[Lizzie van Zyl]], South African child inmate of the [[Bloemfontein]] concentration camp during the [[Second Boer War]], died of typhoid fever in 1901.
* [[Tup Scott|Dr HJH 'Tup' Scott]], captain of the 1886 Australian cricket team that toured England, died of typhoid in 1910.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Scott BF | date = 23 September 1910 | url = http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060109b.htm | title = Australian Dictionary of Biography – Henry James Herbert Scott | chapter = Scott, Henry James Herbert (1858–1910) | publisher = National Centre of Biography, Australian National University | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110221100652/http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060109b.htm | archive-date=2011-02-21 }}</ref>
* [[Arnold Bennett]], English novelist, died in 1932 of typhoid, two months after drinking a glass of water in a Paris hotel to prove it was safe.<ref>{{cite magazine |year=1959 |title=Straw for Silence |magazine=[[The Spectator]] |volume=203 |issn=0038-6952 |publisher=F.C. Westley |oclc=1766325}}</ref>
* [[Hakaru Hashimoto]], a Japanese medical scientist, died of typhoid fever in 1934.<ref>[[Hakaru Hashimoto#Biography]]</ref>
* [[John Buford]], Union cavalry officer during the Civil War, died of typhoid fever on December 16, 1863.