0 an infectious disease spread by lice (= small insects that live on the body) causing a high body temperature, severe pains in the head, and purple spots on the body
1 an infectious disease caused by organisms carried by lice and causing fever, severe pain in the head, and dark red spots on the body
This would have done much to prevent the new cases of typhus.
But he envisaged this as only a secondary preventive measure, believing that the typhus epidemic was already in remission.
They died by the thousand of hunger and typhus.
They were not immunized against typhus, and did not have appropriate training for such an emergency situation.
They note, in respect to its epidemiology, that relapsing fever affords a striking similarity to typhus fever.
While not all post-liberation deaths were due to typhus, it was certainly a major component, and explains the continuing high death rate.
Given that typhus caused severe mental disturbance, hallucinations, and paralysis, the traumatic effects of this disease required expert psychological and psychiatric help.
This caused a surge in new typhus infections.
