typhus
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- noun
- /ˈtaɪfəs/
- Specialized
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tifus
- Typhus survivors in Mexico are at risk for relapsing typhus fever and are potential sources for typhus outbreaks.
- epidemic typhus
- typhus fever
- typhus outbreaks
I mean, people would routinely die from typhus or scarlet fever or, you know, even, I don't know, just a sore throat.
- I mean, people would routinely die from typhus or scarlet fever or, you know, even, I don't know, just a sore throat.
- Loser would get typhus, also the winner.
- No, no, no, they died in the jungle of diseases like malaria and typhus and getting killed by tribes who didn't like them and maybe ate them.
Examples
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White forces were in full scale retreat, the government's authority had collapsed and a typhus epidemic was spreading fast.
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A 2002 study sampled the seroprevalence of typhus antibodies in 400 persons.
Academic text (2014) -
There is no typhus in our city.
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Four months later, she died of typhus.
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She died there of typhus when I was 16.
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The rigors he suffered for the cause helped bring on the typhus that killed him.
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35 miles away, the Athens Brigade reports every other man sick with typhus.
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Body lice infestation and typhus posed public health problems in Mexico until fairly recently.
Academic text (2014) -
USDA scientists in Orlando, Florida, demonstrated that DDT killed lice that transmit typhus and fleas that transmit plague.
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During the outbreak, many patients were diagnosed with typhus and required immediate treatment.
Synonyms
A serious infection spread by lice or fleas that causes high fever, headache, and a skin rash
An illness caused by bacteria spread by bites from ticks, mites, or lice
An illness people get when ticks, mites, or lice spread tiny germs
Compounds
- Specialized
A disease caused by bacteria spread by flea bites that causes fever and rash
- Specialized
A serious disease that causes fever and a rash when fleas spread bacteria to people
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A disease people get when tiny animals called mites bite them that gives fever and a rash
- Specialized
A serious infection spread by lice or fleas that causes high fever, headache, and a skin rash
- Specialized
An illness spread by infected fleas that causes fever, chills, muscle aches, and a rash
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word typhus comes from the Greek word typhos, which means 'fever' or 'smoke' and gives the picture of a mind made 'cloudy' by sickness. That's why typhus today is the name of a serious fever disease that makes people very sick and confused.