Typhoid fever is a severe infection caused by a bacterium, Salmonella typhi. S. typhi is in the same family of bacteria as the type spread by chicken and eggs, commonly known as salmonella poisoning or food poisoning.yphoid fever is passed from person to person through poor hygiene, such as incomplete or no hand washing after using the toilet. Persons who are carriers of the disease and who handle food can be the source of epidemic spread of typhoid.
3. spic. A highly offensive term referring in a derogatory manner to a Hispanic person, i.e. born or descendant of natives of Spain and/or any Spanish-speaking country or territory in Central America, South America or the Caribbean.
Dictionaries refer to it being Low or High German, spire, spier, Middle English espyen to spy or Old French espier. In Gaelic it means someone who is inquisitive, the gaelic word, speir, also means an animal s hind leg joint or an ankle. In Scotland a spier rope is to do with boats. The name is common in Renfrewshire.pier is also of Jewish (Ashkenazic) origin. Some would have given themselves the name of their home town once the use of a surname became necessary. In Europe at War 1600-1650 p 92, one of Mansfield s men recorded that The bishopric of SPEIER is ours.