Although the symptoms are similar, they are less severe and the disease itself is not fatal. It also can spread epidemically, and one of the prominent means of contamination is through polluted water. This disease, too, is similar in nature to typhoid, but less severe. It begins gradually, like typhoid, but it produces no boils or diarrhoea. Only two per cent of its victims die, but its duration is considerably longer, for it can last up to three months.
Convalescence is also very slow.
These they let go thirsty and then force feed them salted water which make them produce milk. Then, when they start to milk the cow, they take a tube connected to a container in their pocket and pour water on top of the milk. The newspaper urged stricter controls on milk salesmen. One dairy company took advantage of the frenzy over milk to promote its products. Boiling milk in the home only kills the microbes for good if the milk is boiled three times at six-hour intervals.