Typhoid Information. General Information. ***************************. Typhoid is a bacterial disease transmitted through contaminated food and water. The risk of Typhoid is thought to be in the region of 1/3,000 to 1/5,000 for the International Traveller to the tropics â especially for those visiting parts of India.yphoid Information. General Information. ***************************. Typhoid is a bacterial disease transmitted through contaminated food and water. The risk of Typhoid is thought to be in the region of 1/3,000 to 1/5,000 for the International Traveller to the tropics â especially for those visiting parts of India.
Nitrogen: historical information. 1  Discoveror: Daniel Rutherford. 2  Place of discovery: Scotland. 3  Date of discovery: 1772. 4  Origin of name: from the Greek words  nitron genes  meaning  nitre  and  forming  and the Latin word  nitrum  (nitre is a common name for potassium nitrate, KNO#).
Where did the name Manhattan originally come from? The name Manhattan derives from the word Manna-hata, as written in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, an officer on Henry Hudson's yacht Halve Maen (Half Moon).[12] A 1610 map dâ¦epicts the name as Manna-hata, twice, on both the west and east sides of the Mauritius River (later named the Hudson River).