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The Great American Songwriter Irving Berlin wrote his first ballad hit, “When I Lost You”, in his grief over the death of his first wife, Dorothy Goetz. She had died of typhoid, contracted on her honeymoon, just four months after their marriage in 1912. (The Honeymoon was in South America).

Now i know that Costa Rica is in CENTRAL America, but this story reminded me of this little bit of American Lore about tropical vacations.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

She had died of typhoid, contracted on her honeymoon, just four months after their marriage in 1912. (The Honeymoon was in South America).

Typhoid Mary lived in New York City at that time. She could have just as easily caught typhoid there.

Typhoid is not a tropical disease.

[exDemMom]

Thank God we have a typhoid vaccine now.