He slept with a girl who had typhoid

i know but i was wondering is it is sexually transmitted?

yah i agree, he had typhoid wayyyy before he slept with the girl with tb. and you cant get typhoid sexually, duh.

[deleted]

the girl didn't have typhoid - she had "the consumption" - tuberculosis. It's very contagious, but he clearly didn't contract it. It's hard to explain, but webmd or wikepedia are very helpful.

___________________________________________________________________
Transmission

Further information: Transmission (medicine)
When people suffering from active pulmonary TB cough, sneeze, speak, or spit, they expel infectious aerosol droplets 0.5 to 5 µm in diameter. A single sneeze can release up to 40,000 droplets.[21] Each one of these droplets may transmit the disease, since the infectious dose of tuberculosis is very low and the inhalation of just a single bacterium can cause a new infection.[22]
People with prolonged, frequent, or intense contact are at particularly high risk of becoming infected, with an estimated 22% infection rate. A person with active but untreated tuberculosis can infect 10–15 other people per year.[2] Others at risk include people in areas where TB is common, people who inject drugs using unsanitary needles, residents and employees of high-risk congregate settings, medically under-served and low-income populations, high-risk racial or ethnic minority populations, children exposed to adults in high-risk categories, patients immunocompromised by conditions such as HIV/AIDS, people who take immunosuppressant drugs, and health care workers serving these high-risk clients.[23]
Transmission can only occur from people with active — not latent — TB [1]. The probability of transmission from one person to another depends upon the number of infectious droplets expelled by a carrier, the effectiveness of ventilation, the duration of exposure, and the virulence of the M. tuberculosis strain.[9] The chain of transmission can, therefore, be broken by isolating patients with active disease and starting effective anti-tuberculous therapy. After two weeks of such treatment, people with non-resistant active TB generally cease to be contagious. If someone does become infected, then it will take at least 21 days, or three to four weeks, before the newly infected person can transmit the disease to others.[24] TB can also be transmitted by eating meat infected with TB. Mycobacterium bovis causes TB in cattle. (See details below.)
________________________________________________________________________________

^^From wikepedia. As it says, she may not have been contagious when he slept with her.

the short version:

It was TB (tuberculosis AKA consumption) not typhoid. TB is contagious but not inevitable.
It is not always 'active' and when it is, basic precautions prevent transmission. Enviromental and general health factors play an important part.
It is entirely possible to live with someone with TB and not catch it.

Typhoid is very contagious. Among other symptoms, it causes diarrhoea and bleeding from the bowel. Sexual activity during the infectious phase is unlikely, to put it lightly.

And yeah, like others here, I do wonder at some people's complete inability to look stuff up themselves - and so getting the answer quickly and in as much detail as they choose - but to instead go to some squawking forum and get others (many of whom just as lazy/ignorant) to do it for them...


When morning comes twice a day or not at all