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Typhus : Prevention

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Prevention List

Prevention could include:
  • Avoid Lice

Prevention Overview Articles

Typhus
Avoid areas where you might encounter rat fleas or lice. Good sanitation and public health measures reduce the rat population.
Source:ADAM
Date:September 28, 2008
Typhus
Prevention for each of these forms of typhus includes avoidance of the insects that carry the causative bacteria. Other preventive measures include good hygiene and the use of insect repellents.
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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