What is Epidemic Typhus?
Epidemic Typhus, also known as camp fever, tends to arise after wars and disasters. Rickettsia prowazekii is the agent in epidemic typhus, it is in the feces of human body lice. The louse will bite the human and poop. When the human scratches the bite mark it becomes itchy and the human pushes the feces into their flesh. It remains infective for months.
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