Typhoid Fever

There are cases when a person gets ill in order to meet someone through this and receive spiritual awakening thanks to this acquaintance.
There are also diseases of purely energetical nature, for example, resulting from energetical incompatibility with sexual partner, or due to diabolic qualities of some family members or colleagues at work. Sometimes one should take this as signs from God for making a drastic change in life — to change domicile, work, etc.
Sometimes a disease may lead to useful contacts with healers. And many people certainly received spiritual awakening from them.
With the help of severe diseases, God made many people turn to Him — when addressing Him is the only hope for relief. Some of them got healed soon after that, others improved the destiny for the future incarnation by forming an initial aspiration to Him. In both cases it was good. Of course, it would have been better if they had done it voluntarily, without disease.