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Typhus: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
Endemic typhus is sometimes called jail fever. The bacteria that cause this type of typhus are usually spread from rats to fleas to humans. Murine typhus occurs in the southern United States, including California and Texas. It is often seen during the summer and fall.
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Typhus - Wikipedia
In historical times, "jail fever" or "gaol fever" was common in English prisons, and is believed by modern authorities to have been typhus. It often ...
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Typhus: Fever, Causes, Symptoms, Treatment & Prevention
Typhus is a group of bacterial illnesses that cause similar symptoms, like high fever, chills, rash, body aches, cough, digestive issues and confusion.
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Typhus | Definition, Causes, Symptoms, Treatment, & Facts | Britannica
Epidemic typhus has also been called camp fever, jail fever, and war fever, names that suggest overcrowding, underwashing, and lowered standards of living.
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It was also a common disease in prisons and for this reason typhus was also known as gaol fever (gaol is an Old English word for jail). The typhoid bacillus was ...
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gaol-fever
jail-fever, gaol-fever (ˈdʒeɪlˈfiːvə(r)) [f. jail, gaol n. + fever n.] A virulent type of typhus-fever, formerly endemic in crowded jails, and frequent in ships and other confined places.[1750 Pringle (title) Observations on the Nature and Cure of Hospital and Jail Fevers.] 1753 J. Pringle in Phil. ...
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Jail fever (epidemic typhus) outbreak in Burundi - PubMed
We recently investigated a suspected outbreak of epidemic typhus in a jail in Burundi. We tested sera of nine patients by microimmunofluorescence for ...
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Typhus - Insects, Disease, and Histroy | Montana State University
... fever, jail fever. Typhus has always been associated with war. Indeed, one of its many colloquial names is war fever. Zinsser (1934) stated, "Typhus had come ...
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Typhus | EBSCO Research Starters
It is often seen in prisons and jails, thus its common name, jail fever. Both forms share many of the same symptoms including rash, fever, joint and muscle pain ...
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Typhus Fevers, Causes, Symptoms, Treatment, Prevention
Typhus is a disease caused by bacteria often transmitted by fleas, ticks, and lice. Get information about typhus causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, ...
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jail
▪ I. jail, gaol, n. (dʒeɪl) Forms: α. 3–4 gayhol(e, 5 gayll(e, gaille, 5–7 gayole, gayl(e, gaile, 6 gaiell, gaill, 6–7 gaole, goale, 7–8 goal, 7– gaol. β. 4 iaiole, 4–7 iaile, iayle, 5 iayll, 6–7 iaole, 7–8 jayl, (7 jale), 7– jail. γ. 6 geyle, geayle, (gial), 7 geale. [ME. had two types, from Northe...
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prison
▪ I. prison, n. (ˈprɪz(ə)n) Forms: 2–5 prisun (dat. 2–4 -une), 4–5 -une; 3– prison (dat. 3–4 -one), 4–6 prisone; 3–6 -oun (5 -oune), 4–5 -own; 4–6 pryson, -one, -oun, -own (5 -yn); 6 prissoun. β. 4–5 presun (4 pressone), 4–7 preson(e, -oun(e, 5 -own, 6 preassoun. [Early ME. prisun, -on, a. OF. prisu...
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