Symptoms can include high fever, chills, body aches, rash, and cough ... Today, typhus is called either endemic, epidemic, or bush typhus depending on the cause of the infection.

WHEN a clinician is consulted by a patient who formerly lived in an epidemic typhus zone and who now has fever, headache and possibly a rash ... but in each case the cause of the fever was ...

Advt Scrub typhus is caused by the bacterium 'Orientia tsutsugamushi ... Symptoms, such as fever, headache, body aches and rash, usually begin around 10 days after infection, he said.