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epidemic typhus

I note that you have been editing Epidemic typhus. Unfortunately the article contains a lot of confusion between typhus and typhoid fever. These are two entirely different diseases. They just happen to have similar sounding names.

You can find information on typhus at [1]
The same site has information on typhoid fever at [2]

You could also try [3] for typhus and [4] for typhoid fever.

The "short story" on the difference between the two diseases is that typhus is a disease carried by lice. It is the disease that killed many people in concentration camps in World War II. It does well in over-crowded conditions where people have difficulty keeping themselves and their clothes clean. It is now a relatively rare disease and can be treated with one antibiotic that is effective. The other illness, typhoid fever, is a disease that is spread by poor food-handling practices by infected people - so that's the "oral fecal" route. It is still common in third-world countries and is a risk to residents and visitors of those countries.

ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 19:15, 9 December 2020 (UTC)