The once-rare disease is so uncommon that many doctors don’t even recognize the symptoms, health officials fear.
Health experts are alarmed at a spike in typhus cases in Los Angeles County, where three recent deaths have been blamed on the disease.
“These three deaths are a wake-up call to start thinking about this disease and the severe manifestations and the effect on our communities,” Dr. Umme-Aiman Halai, a medical epidemiologist at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health,Other US cases of typhus have been reported in Texas and Hawaii. Worldwide, the disease is found in Southeast Asia, Africa, Central and South America, southern Europe and the Middle East.
There’s no vaccine for typhus, but early treatment with the antibiotic doxycycline can cure most cases. About a third of infected people will need intensive care for seizures, meningitis or septic shock.
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