Typhus fevers are a group of diseases caused by rickettsia bacteria infection. Typhus is transferred to humans by an infected animal. Typical carriers include fleas, mites, and lice.

ParentsmustBe alert if your little one currently has a fever and looks very weak, especially if his muscles feel sore and a rash appears ... Typhus in children is generally caused by bacteria ...

The mild U.S. variety of the disease (fever, rash, aches ... But the same bacterium-like organism can cause the terrible European epidemic typhus, which is spread by human lice and kills from ...

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 ...

SAN ANTONIO - – When you hear the word typhus, you may think of the epidemics that happened historically during wars and famines. Although it’s no longer an epidemic, hospitals in South Texas ...

Professor Zinsser calculates that typhus has caused ... of epidemic, the diagnosis is extremely difficult in the pre-eruptive stage. As the eruption appears, the fever is apt to rise. The rash ...

It’s a relative of the bacteria responsible for epidemic typhus ... it tends to cause milder illness than its cousin. Symptoms include fever, headache, and a distinctive rash.

They might just get a headache and not even know that this is what they had,” Dr. Jemma Alarcón, an epidemic ... flea-borne typhus in any patient with fever, headache, and rash, particularly ...

Flea-borne typhus was tied to ... The illness is caused by bacteria and spreads to humans through infected fleas. It can cause fever, headache, and rashes that spare the palms and soles of the ...

Flea-borne typhus in particular usually causes nausea, cough, stomach pain and a rash from the bite that arises around day five of the illness, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

He maintains that all these forms may be reduced to epidemic typhus, murine typhus and Tobia spotted fever. In three different places in Bogota cases of typhus have occurred apparently caused by ...