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What is relapsing fever?
Relapsing fever refers to two similar illnesses, both of which cause high fevers. The fevers resolve, only to recur again within about a week.
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How often do fevers recur in relapsing fever?
Recurrent episodes of fever with less severe symptoms occur after about a week. In untreated infections, fevers recur about three times in TBRF, and only once or twice in LBRF.
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How easily can yellow fever spread?
The disease is not spread directly from person to person.It is spread by the bite of an infective Aedes Aegypti Mosquito.A Mosquito the bites a person with yellow fever within the first the first...
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How is typhoid fever spread?
Typhoid fever is caused by Salmonella bacteria in contaminated food and water. The bacteria are absorbed in the intestinal tract and spread in fecal waste. Some infected individuals will remain...
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How do fever blisters spread?
Skin-to-skin contact with an infected person, at the location where the virus is active, during a time when they are shedding virus.