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What insect is a carrier of endemic typhus?
Endemic typhus is carried by fleas.
How do you use the word typhus in a sentence?
There was no vaccine for endemic typhus in the great war.
What bacteria causes endemic typhus?
The causative bacteria is called Rickettsia typhi.
How many people die from typhus in the 21ST century?
2,000,000,000 people have died of typhus
How many people have died from typhus in the last 700 years?
More than thousand million people have died of typhus from typhus in last 700 years.
What are the four examples of organisms that transmit vector borne disease?
Mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, mites (correct
Names a single cell organism?
Eschericia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes, Klebsiella pneumonie, Yersinia pestisRickesttsia prowazekii-the endemic typhus bacteria
How do people get typhus?
we get typhus by bites of ticks and lice~
About how many people died from typhus worldwide?
millions of people
What is the recovery rate from endemic typhus?
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.
What is Brill-Zinsser disease?
a reactivation of an earlier infection with epidemic typhus. It affects people years after they have completely recovered from epidemic typhus.
What diseases were there in the English Civil War?
Apart from the usual illnesses that were endemic in the seventeenth century; the most prolific killers were Typhus and Plague. Typhus is caused by body life and is particularly lethal for adults, but less so for children. In cramped, over-populated conditions throughout the winter months, when people were rarely able to wash themselves or change their clothes, lice spread and with them typhus. In besieged military garrisons such as Newark and Bristol, typhus was probably the most regular and most prolific killer of adult civilians.The plague was always a problem, but the severity of conditions throughout the war, meant that when it periodically surfaced people were not well enough to cope with the new infection. Unlike typhus, plague kills people from all classes and ages and there was a high mortality rate for all infected. In a royalist garrison such as Newark on Trent in Nottinghamshire, which was besieged three times between 1643-1646, as much as a quarter of the civilian population of the ton were killed by both plague and typhus
