What is the recovery rate from endemic typhus?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

People usually recover uneventfully from endemic typhus, although the elderly, those with other medical problems, or people mistakenly treated with sulfa drugs may have a 1% Death Rate from the illness.

Answer 3

Scientists estimate that about 25 of every 100 people infected during an epidemic die.

Answer 4

According to the World Health Organization approximately 72 million people were killed.

Answer 5

While children usually recover well from epidemic typhus, older adults may have as much as a 60% death rate without treatment.

Answer 6

Trench fever and epidemic typhus the other two diseases have mortality rates of 5%-10%.

Answer 7

There is 100 % morbidity in typhoid fever. Patient has to be absent from job or school for about one month.