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Typhus

Typhus is a vaccine-preventable infection caused by rickettsial bacteria spread through body lice, fleas, or ticks. While it can be treated with antibiotics, some types of typhus have a high mortality rate without treatment.

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What is typhus on Anne and Margot frank?

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Typhus is a bacterial infection spread by lice, causing symptoms like fever, rash, and weakness. Anne and Margot Frank both died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during World War II, where they were taken after being discovered hiding during the Holocaust.

How old was Anne frank when she was diagnose with typhus?

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Anne Frank was 15 years old when she was diagnosed with typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945. She tragically died from the disease shortly afterward.

What kind of typhus did anne frank die of?

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Anne Frank died of typhus, specifically typhus epidemics that plagued the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she was held during World War II. Typhus is a rare but serious infectious disease spread by lice or fleas, and during that time, prisoners in concentration camps were particularly susceptible to outbreaks due to poor living conditions and overcrowding.

Did Anne Frank die of typhus or starvation?

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Even thought Anne must have been starving, that isn't was killed her. The camp she was in was infected of typhus and both her and her sister got it. Margot (Anne's sister) died first and Anne, a few day later.

What shape of bacteria is typhus?

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When did typhus start?

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When did type of start tight fits When did it start

What is scrub typhus?

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The main symptoms include fever, headache, muscle aches and pains, cough, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, and diarrhea. Some patients experience only these symptoms. Some patients develop a rash, which can be flat or bumpy.

Why is typhus gram neg?

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What does a scrub typhus rash look like?

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Some patients develop a rash, which can be flat or bumpy. The individual spots eventually develop crusty black scabs.

How do people get typhus?

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we get typhus by bites of ticks and lice~

What was the Death toll from Typhus during the Holocaust?

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Exact numbers no one knows for sure plus any and all documents have either been destroyed or tampered with. Credible estimates are that Typhus was the number one killer at the time due to unsanitary conditions.

How many people does typhus kill per year?

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Approximately one half

Is there a vaccine for Epidemic typhus?

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Hellooooooooo! Anybody out here?

Come on people! Typhus,i.e. Rickettsia pronazek (Epidemic typhus)...The vaccine in the military during the 1952-1963 was called "Typhus" vaccine. Question: What is it called TODAY?

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What is the recovery rate from endemic typhus?

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Untreated about 15 to 20 % patients will die of typhoid fever. Even with good medical treatment there is about one percent mortality. Most of the later category die of intestinal perforation. You can not go for operation on critically ill patient.

How many people died each year from typhus?

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If a person is infected with typhoid, they need to be treated. It is a bacterial disease and kills 30 percent of the people who get the disease. This translates to about 600,000 people out of 16 million.

How long can typhus live?

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The incubation period for Epidemic Typhus is one to two weeks, after which the symptoms may persist for weeks or months. From 10% to 60% of those infected will die without treatment, and it may recur in untreated survivors.

How was the disease Typhus treated during the American Civil War?

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They used to give the traditional drugs as per local customs. They used to pray like you do it today. So you have more sincere prayers in hospitals than churches or temples. There was 20 % mortality and believe me, they were more happy to have 80 % cured of typhoid fever.

What are the carriers of typhus?

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typhoid mary...your welcome

How many people die from typhus in the 21ST century?

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2,000,000,000 people have died of typhus

What efforts were made to cure typhus during the Holocaust?

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you gas them - which is exactly what mengele did his 1st day at birkenau, when theres an epidemic of typhoid, mengele's new method was to send everyone in the block to the gas chambers (even if the block has only 1 case of typhus)

then the baracks were all disinfected. and that's how you get rid of typhus!

mengele would boast. & he actually got a medal for it!

Were is typhus most likely found?

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It's common in most places of the world except industrialized regions such as United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia and Japan.

Found in Asia, Africa, and Latin America (places where frequent hand washing is infrequent also where water is contaminated with sewer).

How long did it take for Anne Frank to die when she got typhus?

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Epidemic typhus is a disease spread by lice that spreads especially fast in conditions where people are crowded together tightly (this perfectly describes Bergen-Belsen in March, 1945).

While easily curable with antibiotics (none at Belsen), it is usually fatal without treatment. The patient dies of high fever, toxin from the bacteria in the bloodstream, and the collapse of general bodily systems

How many Jews were killed by typhus?

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first answer:

The majority of jews who died during the holocaust were victims of typhus. They had a typhus epidemic which was helped along by strategic allied bombing.

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Thousands of Jews were killed by typhus, such as at Bergen-Belsen camp north-east of Hannover, thousands were killed by starvation, thousands died from various other diseases; however millions were murdered in gas chambers & by firing squads.

Also strategic bombing did not make the typhus epidemic worse. The spread of this type disease is made worse by the close proximity of infected people to others. German camps did exactly what the name of these camps imply, they 'concentrated' them in a tight space, thus creating the conditions for the spread of any typhus. The Germans never intended to treat infected prisoners, just prevent the spread of typhus beyond the camp.

If anything, strategic bombing disrupted German rail traffic making it harder for the Germans to transport Jews to the Concentration & Death Camps.