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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Rebecca Whittaker

‘I was left unconscious and seriously ill after eating street food and petting cats on remote island’

A backpacker is warning others of the unexpected health risks that come with eating street food and petting stray cats after a terrifying brush with typhoid left her seriously ill.

Alysha Pyrgotis, from Bradford, was island-hopping in Indonesia and en route to Thailand, when she suddenly developed symptoms that were later diagnosed as typhoid fever.

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