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ABSTRACT Incidence and extent of typhoid fever was conducted based on the samples collected from the patients attending general hospital of Geidam Yobe state, Nigeria and Jibo Rahama medical laboratory. Widal blood test and rapid slide titration method was used in this research work for typhoid fever injection diagnosis by putting the blood sample collected in the EDTA container, then it was place in a test tube and spinned in centrifuge machine at 1000rpm (revolution per minute) for 5 minute where it separated the serum from blood. An eight (8) drops of serum was place on a clean white tiles separately, eight drops of widal antigens was dropped respectively. Mixture was mixed to give homogenous solution and the tile was rotated at least for 5 to 10 minutes, the reaction was observed visually. Out of the 24 samples collected, nine (9) were tested positive and it was more prevalent between the age classes: 1-10, 11-20, 21-30 and 30 -40. It was observed that two (2) out of the nine patients are male while seven (7) were female, and this suggest that typhoid fever is more prevalent in female sex than in male sex. However, it should be noted that in this study there were more female patients than male therefore, valid conclusion cannot be made regarding the sex which suffers more. In a nutshell, improper sanitation is responsible for the wide spread of typhoid fever in most localities in developing countries like Nigeria, because the species that cause typhoid fever breed well in an unsanitary practice in preparation of food and drinks with water contaminated with fecal matter. It is known that the symptoms of typhoid fever mimics those of malaria fever, therefore proper investigation should be carried out before medication.