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Prevention List

Prevention could include:
  • Avoid Lice

Prevention Overview Articles

Typhus
Avoid areas where rat fleas or lice might be encountered. Good sanitation and public health measures reduce the rat population.
Source:ADAM
Date:September 25, 2006
Typhus
Several different illnesses called "typhus" exist, all of them caused by one of the bacteria in the family Rickettsiae. Each illness occurs when the bacteria is passed to a human through contact with an infected insect.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine

Specific Prevention Articles

Sanitation
Sanitation is a basic, as well as a long-standing, public health issue. When early peoples settled in communities and started to cultivate crops and raise animals, sanitation became a primary concern for society.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
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