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How is scrub typhus transmitted?
As of early 2004 there are no effective vaccines for scrub typhus. In endemic areas, precautions include wearing protective clothing.Insect repellents.Clearing of vegetation and chemical treatment of the soil.Prophylactic antibiotic dosage.
What is another name for scrub typhus?
Scrub typhus is also known as tsutsugamushi disease. also commonly referred to as tropical typhus.
What is scrub typhus?
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.
Is typhus a virus or bacteria?
bacteria
What dieseases do rats Cary?
Typhus
How did soldiers in World War 1 get typhus?
Soldiers in WWI contracted typhus from poor sanitation and crowded quarters during the trench warfare. Typhus is caused by bacteria that are spread by human body lice and from lice on rats and mice. The largest epidemics of Typhus were actually in the German concentration camps of World War 2.
What causes typhus?
While typhus diseases are commonly spread by the lice and ticks of rats, Epidemic typhus is spread by the human body louse.
What causes epidemic typhus?
While typhus diseases are commonly spread by the lice and ticks of rats, Epidemic typhus is spread by the human body louse.
What are the treatments for scrub typhus?
Scrub typhus is treated with antibiotics. Chloramphenicol. and tetracycline.are the drugs of choice. Patients who are severely ill and whose treatment was delayed may be given corticosteroids in combination with antibiotics for three days.
Is typhus caused by a virus?
yes
What is typhus in a sentce?
Think it's a disease... The typhus outbreak caused the citizens to die.
What caused Anne and Margot's death?
typhus
