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A member asked:
My nephew was diagnosed with salmonella typhi he's 4 months old how would he have gotten that??
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By mouth: This germ can only access the digestive tract through their mouth. Someones fingers or some object or objects or some source of fluids was contaminated by the germ. It was inadvertently fed to baby who became sick with it.
Answered 4/24/2016
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