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Top: Health: Conditions_and_Diseases: Infectious_Diseases: Rickettsial: Typhus

Any of several forms of infectious disease caused by Rickettsia species, transmitted by bites of fleas, lice, or mites. Characterized by severe headache, sustained high fever, depression, delirium, and the eruption of red rashes on the skin.

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