Mataracy
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Typhus is an illness similar to but different from typhoid. The infection is transmitted by bites of Lice,Ticks and rat fleas.
Signs:
- Typhus begins like a bad cold. After a week or more fever begins, with chills, headache, and pain in the muscles and chest.
- After a few days of fever a typical rash appears, first in the armpits and then on the body then the arms and legs ( but not on the fece , palms of the hands, or soles of the feet). The rash looks like many tiny bruises.
- The fever last 2 weeks or more. Typhus is usually mild in children and very severe in old people. An epidemic form of typhus is especially dangerous.
- In typhus spread by ticks, there is often a large painful sire at the point of the bite, and the lymph nodes neat the bite are is swollen and painful.
Treatment:
- If you think someone may have typhus, get medical advice. Special tests are often needed.
- Give tetracycline, adult: 2 capsules if 250 ng. 4 times a day for 7 days .
Prevention:
- Keep clean . De- louse the whole family regulaly.
- Remove ticks from your dogs and do not allow dogs in your house.
- Kill rats . Use cats or traps ( not poison which can be dangerous to other animals and children).
- kill rat fleas. Do not handle dead rats. The fleas may jump off onto you. Drown and burn the rat holes and nests.
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Signs:
- Typhus begins like a bad cold. After a week or more fever begins, with chills, headache, and pain in the muscles and chest.
- After a few days of fever a typical rash appears, first in the armpits and then on the body then the arms and legs ( but not on the fece , palms of the hands, or soles of the feet). The rash looks like many tiny bruises.
- The fever last 2 weeks or more. Typhus is usually mild in children and very severe in old people. An epidemic form of typhus is especially dangerous.
- In typhus spread by ticks, there is often a large painful sire at the point of the bite, and the lymph nodes neat the bite are is swollen and painful.
Treatment:
- If you think someone may have typhus, get medical advice. Special tests are often needed.
- Give tetracycline, adult: 2 capsules if 250 ng. 4 times a day for 7 days .
Prevention:
- Keep clean . De- louse the whole family regulaly.
- Remove ticks from your dogs and do not allow dogs in your house.
- Kill rats . Use cats or traps ( not poison which can be dangerous to other animals and children).
- kill rat fleas. Do not handle dead rats. The fleas may jump off onto you. Drown and burn the rat holes and nests.
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