Typhus
chaz s
Introdutin to Typhus
Lice, mice, and nothing nice typhus is one of the worst sickness you can have. In the 1900s it was common to get typhus and die especially poor countries. My research is about typhus one of the worst disease 1900s
Typhus
Acute infectious diseases appear suddenly with onsets of headache, chills, fever, and general pain proceed on the third to fifth day with rash toxemia(toxic substance in blood) its terminate after two or three weeks. Typhus (actually not one illness but a group of closely related diseases)and its caused by different species rickettsia bacteria usually transmitted into humans from lice, fleas, mites, and ticks insects can carry this disease insects also carry the disease.
What happens when your infected
You usually are really dizzy and have a huge fever. next you start to get rashes and sweat. Finally you either die or live and the disease sticks with you for the rest of your life but it doesn't infect you.
Coclution
Lice mice and nothing nice the one of the worst disease is typhus. 1900s a lot of people died from typhus. my research proves typhus is the worst disease.
Humen Louse
Human Louse, a wingless parasitic insect. Engraving from Robert Hooke Micrographic London 1665. Now known to be vector for Epidemic typhus.
Tick feeding on human blood
ticks usually pass the disease to humans
Body Louse, Microscopic View
louse spread typhus but ticks spread the disease the most
cited info.
"Log in." Britannica School. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Dec. 2015.