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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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Can ticks transmit epidemic typhus to humans?
Typhus is transmitted in human feces, and is usually spread by contaminated water. It is not spread by animal vectors.
Mostly isolation , quarantine. Cleanliness and nursing care . Burning infected clothing, beddind and bodies.
Rickettsia grow
Why did Helen burns die of tuberculosis while the other students of Lowood died of typhus?
Because Charlotte Brontë, the author of the novel, had two sisters who died of tuberculosis while they were at boarding school; this pattern suggests a parallel that Brontë has created between her and Jane's lives.
Typhus usually responds to antibiotic treatment. However, in some cases the Rickettsia bacteria remain dormant in cells and can cause another outbreak (possibly months or years later) in individuals who appear cured.
What kind of typhus did Wilbur wright die of?
Duliculant typhus is what the Wright brother Wilbur died of.
What form of mite can transmit scrub typhus?
Rickettsia tsutsugamushi. The larva is the only stage that can transmit the disease to humans and other vertebrates.
Why did Anne Frank die of Typhus and not the gas chambers?
Not everyone who was sent to a camp by the Nazis was immediately gassed. In fact, not every camp was an extermination camp. Camps were also used to supply slave labor and there were many deaths from starvation and disease, as well as execution. Anne Frank was arrested in 1944 and sent to the Bergen-Belsen camp, which never had a gas chamber. Bergen-Belsen was built to hold 10,000 inmates. In December 1944 it held about 15,000. In 1945, as the Soviets advanced in the east, large numbers of prisoners from eastern camps were moved to Bergen-Belsen and other camps more remote from the front. There were 22,000 inmates on 1 February; 41,000 on 1 March; and 60,000 on 15 April. The resulting overcrowding produced a great increase in deaths from malnutrition and disease, particulary Typhus, which apparently swept the camp in early 1945.
What are the symptoms of typhus?
The symptoms of Typhus include; severe headache, sustained high fever, depression, delirium, and red rashes all over the skin.
Symptoms of murine or endemic typhus may include:
- Abdominal pain
- Backache
- Diarrhea
- Dull red rash that begins on the middle of the body and spreads
- Extremely high fever (105 - 106 degrees Fahrenheit), which may last up to 2 weeks
- Hacking, dry cough
- Headache
- Joint and muscle pain
- Nausea
- Vomiting
Symptoms of epidemic typhus may include:
- Chills
- Cough
- Delirium
- High fever (104 degrees Fahrenheit)
- Joint pain (arthralgia)
- Lights that appear very bright; light may hurt the eyes
- Low blood pressure
- Rash that begins on the chest and spreads to the rest of the body (except the palms of the hands and soles of the feet)
- Severe headache
- Severe muscle pain
- Stupor
