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What is Typhus?

One of a number of infectious diseases caused by Rickettsial organisms, transmitted by lice, ticks or mites, and featuring fever, shivering, headache, general aches, cough, constipation, a mottled rash, delirium, prostration, heart failure, stupor and sometimes coma and death.



Rash on a man with epidemic typhus.

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