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Epidemic typhus (also called camp fever jail fever hospital fever ship fever famine fever putrid fever petechial fever Epidemic louse-borne typhus and louse-borne typhus) is a form of typhus so named because the disease often causes epidemics following wars and natural disasters. The causative organism is Rickettsia prowazekii transmitted by the human body louse (Pediculus humanus corporis). Feeding on a human who carries the bacillus infects the louse. R.
