According to CDC when traveling to Jamaica, it suggests to get vaccinated against Typhoid disease.  Why it is important to get this? What it will protect you from? How this pathogen is transmitted? Signs and symptoms, and expected outcome if caught?

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According to CDC when traveling to Jamaica, it suggests to get vaccinated against Typhoid disease.  Why it is important to get this? What it will protect you from? How this pathogen is transmitted? Signs and symptoms, and expected outcome if caught?

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A vaccine is a biological preparation that is injected to human beings. Specific vaccine provides active acquired immunity to a specific infectious disease. A vaccine generally contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is made from  killed or weakened forms of the microbe.

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