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 * 1) Typhus is a group of infectious diseases, rather than just one.
 * 2) Symptoms include: headaches, chills & fever. On around the 4th day, rashes appear.
 * 3) Caused by different species of bacteria called rickettsia, passed on to humans by lice, fleas, ticks, or mites.
 * 4) Usually the insects are carried by cattle, rodents, or other aminals.
 * 5) Epidemic Typhus, carried by lice, is the most important form. Murine (endemic) Typhus, carried by fleas, Scrub Typhus, Tsutsugamushi Typhus, and tick-borne typhus.
 * 6) Epidemic Typhus is also known as Camp Fever, Jail Fever, and War Fever, named after places that are overcrowded and unsanitary.
 * 7) EP caused by Rickettsia prowazekii bactria, passed by body louce (pediculus humanus humanus).
 * 8) As louse suck the blood of humans, the bacteria makes its way into the insects stomach. It then multiplies and bursts, filling the insect. It is sometimes then excreted into the feces. People usually infected by scratching louse bites, because they're rubbing the infected feces into their bites.
 * 9) 10 days after the bite, the infected experience headaches, malaise, chills, and few other symptoms.
 * 10) Usually associated with people who live bunched up in filthy conditions, cold, poverty, or hunger. Ships, during war, in camps, and in jail.
 * 11) It is common for gangrene on the fingers, nose, ears, and genitals due to sluggish circulation to occur if the disease is not treated.
 * 12) It is common to see signs of pneumonia and kidney failure.
 * 13) Few will die if it is treated early enough.
 * 14) EP has been one of the disease scourges in history.
 * 15) Endemic Typhus (Rickettsia typhi) infects usually Norway rats, common house rats, or other small rats.

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