typhus

A typhus epidemic struck in the winter of 1919–20.

The hospital ward was fumigated after the outbreak of typhus.

The bloodsucking louse also transmits various commutable diseases such as endemic typhus, trench fever and relapsing fever.

Several distinct rickettsiae (a parasite carried by ticks, fleas, and lice) cause a disease known as typhus in humans.All cause disease with similarities of fever, headache, and rash.

This form called murine typhus is serious.

By September, several people in that household got the disease typhus.

This form called murine typhus is serious. But often clears up on its own and responds to an antibiotic.

Some scholars have suggested this is evidence Shakespeare died of typhus.

Napoleon's Grand Army lost over a hundred thousand men to typhus.

The results were catastrophic and led to another, even bigger outbreak of typhus.

Not since 1943, when the town suffered a typhus outbreak, had anything similar happened.

This kind of typhus has spread by fleas found on rats, opossums or even pets.

Like their enemies, they are driven crazy by lice and parasites that bring scabies and typhus.

Europeans carried many other infectious diseases with them as well, including smallpox, typhus, cholera, and influenza.