What is the difference between Typhoid and Typhus?
Question:
(I know I asked this before, but my jerkoff younger sister deleted it.)
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Typhus and typhoid fever were two diseases which the Victorians tended to confuse and use interchangeably, certainly in fictional writing. So what is the difference between typhus and typhoid, and which of them - if either - was what came to be known as 'gaol fever'?
The answer is that gaol fever was typhus, a disease caused by bacteria spreading through the bites of lice and fleas. The infection causes headache, fever and a rash of red spots. It arrived in Europe in the 15th century, and there was a fearful epidemic in 1557-59.
Typhoid, on the other hand, is spread by consuming contaminated food or water and is not unrelated to salmonella.
Other Answers:
Nope, they are completely different.
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