My roommate has Typhoid

So on the fourth day my roommate and I were in Kenya she comes down with Typhoid fever. She was only feeling a bit sick the day before, then some normal flu like stuff and boom, Typhoid. In America she spent a ton of money on a vaccine for typhoid that she comes to find out is only 75% effective. She’s pissed but doing fine and since they caught it early there should be no problems. The first few days I was in Kenya what really baffled me was the casual way that people (foreigners who had been here for months) talked about the rare illnesses they had gotten. One girl says to the other “oh yeah I remember that trip to the beach , that was right after you got over your E. Coli poisoning” or “yeah everyone here gets Malaria it’s no biggy” and the most common one, “just wait, a month here and you too will have ring worm”. These things alone are not so very scary but combined they seemed to be saying “Welcome To Kenya… Try not to Die!” And I shall!