To avoid delay in treatment, “health care providers should consider fleaborne typhus in any patient with fever, headache, and rash, particularly if the patient lives in or recently traveled to ...

Murine typhus became so rare after public health efforts against it in the 1940s that it eventually stopped being a nationally notifiable disease. But now, cases are on the rise in two states that ...

Only one case of typhus fever was discovered in the city up to ... may be expected to crop out in similar circumstances. The patient was Joseph Seigler, twenty-one years old, of 183 Rivington ...

Public health officials urged doctors to keep flea-borne typhus in mind whenever they encounter a patient with fever, headache and rash, especially if they live in or have traveled to somewhere ...

The patient sought medical attention ... The disease is also known as endemic typhus, flea-borne typhus, or flea-borne spotted fever. Rats, mice, and mongoose are known to be reservoirs of ...

"A majority of people are asymptomatic or have very mild disease. They might ... "In this instance, the flea-borne typhus, unfortunately, did affect the patients... one of them, her heart, and ...

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, he must include Brill's disease in his differential ...

Typhus fever usually manifests itself by a sudden ... About the ninth day the headache fades, delirium ensues. The patient is apt to be wild and active, or he may be capable of only low ...

This disease is quite common ... is a type of antibiotic that is usually used to treat all types of typhus. The sooner a patient takes this antibiotic, the quicker the recovery rate ...

However, as of May this year, eight residents have reported typhus fever, city officials said Thursday, June 13. All patients were treated and have since recovered. Since infected fleas are ...

However, as of May this year, eight residents have reported typhus fever, city officials said Thursday, June 13. All patients were treated and have since recovered. Since infected fleas are primarily ...