Typhus has appeared since medieval times. The causative bacteria Rickettsia are named after Howard Taylor Ricketts (1871-1910), who studied and eventually died of typhus.

nausea, headaches and death

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Typhus has killed many millions of people throughout history. It is caused by lice, and is very infectious. It still kills many people in Africa although there is a vaccine.

Anne Frank famously died from Typhus in concentration camp

A louse becomes infected with typhus by taking a blood meal from a fever-ridden human. Once in the louse's gut, the rickettsiae reproduce to such enormous numbers that they cause cells in the insect's gut to rupture. The rickettsiae then are present in the feces of the louse. Humans become infected by rubbing or scratching the lice feces into their skin or into their mucous membranes.

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.

ther is no cure but there is treatments.

Typhus is an infection by the Riscksettia bacillus, and if not treated, is commonly fatal. The patient becomes more and more ill over a period of a few days: High fever, distinctive rash, severe joint pain and headache, severe cough, delirium and ultimately death.

complications of typhoid fever include liver and spleen enlargement, sometimes so great that the spleen ruptures or bursts; anemia, or low red blood cell count due to blood loss from the intestinal bleeding; joint infections.

4 million and seventy eight thousand people died. the worse epidemic to ever hit europe.

The symptoms appear then days after the victems has been infected, they include high fever, pain in the muscles and joints, stiffness, headache, and cerebral disturbance. About the fifth day of the disease, a dark-red rash of elevated spots breaks out on the trunk and shoulders and then spreads to the rest of the body.

While typhus diseases are commonly spread by the lice and ticks of rats, Epidemic typhus is spread by the human body louse.

The underlining Salmonella infection that causes it was identified in the late 1800's and the first vaccine was developed in 1897 by Almroth Edward Wright. The 1909 vaccine created by Frederick F. Russell, a U.S. Army physician, was used to immunize most of the United States armed forces.

Typhus is caused by bacteria and is treated with antibiotics such as doxycycline or tetracycline. Good hygiene is very important in the control of typhus, as it's spread by lice and fleas through their bite. Keeping sanitary conditions and keeping yourself (and your home) free of pests will go a long way to preventing the disease.

Typhus used to be known as "Camp Fever" for it broke out often in military encampments where conditions were very cramped and unsanitary.

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You must go to a hospital and then let the doctors do all the work.

Epidemics of typhus struck the German army invading Russia, although the number of deaths is unclear. Similarly, it is impossible to know how many hundreds of thousands of the deaths in Nazi concentration camps were due to typhus, as opposed to other causes.

There was no cure for typhoid in Victorian time. the old wise physician, probably used to treat typhoid by good nursing care. There was about 20 % mortality for the typhoid fever, at that time.

Typhoid fever, also known as enteric fever, is a potentially fatal multisystemic illness caused primarily by Salmonella enterica, subspecies enterica serovar typhiand, to a lesser extent, related serovars paratyphi A, B, and C.

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