Typhus
noun
A serious disease transferred to humans by body lice and fleas causing fever and aches.
The outbreak of typhus in the region was caused by unsanitary living conditions.
Often appears as...
- outbreak of typhus
- typhus fever
noun
A serious disease transferred to humans by body lice and fleas causing fever and aches.
The outbreak of typhus in the region was caused by unsanitary living conditions.
Often appears as...
- outbreak of typhus
- typhus fever
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Disease Severity
Emphasizes the serious nature and potential danger of the illness.
After visiting the refugee camp, he was diagnosed with typhus.
Pro Tip 2/3Transmission Vectors
Not from person-to-person contact, but spread through lice or fleas.
Despite close quarters, she didn't get typhus because the lice didn't reach her.
Pro Tip 3/3Context of Outbreaks
Usually associated with poor hygiene and crowded conditions.
The prison's hygiene issues led to a typhus outbreak.
Pro Tip 1/3Disease Severity
Emphasizes the serious nature and potential danger of the illness.
After visiting the refugee camp, he was diagnosed with typhus.
Pro Tip 2/3Transmission Vectors
Not from person-to-person contact, but spread through lice or fleas.
Despite close quarters, she didn't get typhus because the lice didn't reach her.
Pro Tip 3/3Context of Outbreaks
Usually associated with poor hygiene and crowded conditions.
The prison's hygiene issues led to a typhus outbreak.
Pro Tip 1/3Disease Severity
Emphasizes the serious nature and potential danger of the illness.
After visiting the refugee camp, he was diagnosed with typhus.
Pro Tip 2/3Transmission Vectors
Not from person-to-person contact, but spread through lice or fleas.
Despite close quarters, she didn't get typhus because the lice didn't reach her.
Pro Tip 3/3Context of Outbreaks
Usually associated with poor hygiene and crowded conditions.
The prison's hygiene issues led to a typhus outbreak.
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How one person saved...
on the pretense of checking for typhus outbreaks. At first, her group worked to smuggle in resources with the help of sympathetic Polish officials and the medical underground. But as desperate parents began sending their children through sewers and over walls,
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Breaking boundaries,...
that she realized more soldiers were dying of typhus and cholera and dysentery than from their battle wounds and that's what led to her breakthrough that hygiene and sanitation were the key
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Gary Slutkin: Let's...
And besides that, it reminded me of ancient epidemics that were previously completely misunderstood because the science hadn't been there before, epidemics of plague or typhus or leprosy,
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How one person saved...
on the pretense of checking for typhus outbreaks. At first, her group worked to smuggle in resources with the help of sympathetic Polish officials and the medical underground. But as desperate parents began sending their children through sewers and over walls,
Video examples
Breaking boundaries,...
that she realized more soldiers were dying of typhus and cholera and dysentery than from their battle wounds and that's what led to her breakthrough that hygiene and sanitation were the key
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Gary Slutkin: Let's...
And besides that, it reminded me of ancient epidemics that were previously completely misunderstood because the science hadn't been there before, epidemics of plague or typhus or leprosy,
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Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Scientist
Just as the only reservoir for the typhus virus in nature is provided by man, so the only vector of infection is the louse. The bite of the louse is not virulent immediately after the infecting meal. It becomes so only towards the 7th day following infection.
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Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Scientist
My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today.
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Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Scientist
I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.
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Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Scientist
Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread.
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Ferdinand Buisson
French Activist
We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.
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Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Scientist
Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it.
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Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Scientist
I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse.
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Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Scientist
It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French Writer
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Scientist
Just as the only reservoir for the typhus virus in nature is provided by man, so the only vector of infection is the louse. The bite of the louse is not virulent immediately after the infecting meal. It becomes so only towards the 7th day following infection.
Quote examples
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Scientist
My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today.
Quote examples
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Scientist
I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.
Quote examples
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Scientist
Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread.
Quote examples
Ferdinand Buisson
French Activist
We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.
Quote examples
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Scientist
Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it.
Quote examples
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Scientist
I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse.
Quote examples
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Scientist
It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus.
Quote examples
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French Writer
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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