Typhus is one of several similar diseases that is caused by the Rickettsiae bacteria. Of greek origin, meaning hazy or smokey, it describes the state of mind of those affected by the typhus disease. A fever which can reach up to 39°C (102°F) and a headache, are symptoms which are common to all types of typhus. In some tropical countries, typhus is most often mistaken for another disease known as "dengue".

There are three different forms of typhus. The Epidemic typhus (also known as "louse-bourne typhus"), can often cause epidemics following wars and natural disasters. The causative organism is transmitted by the human body louse, which will leave you with a fever, headache, exhaustion, chills, and rash. This type of typhus is most commonly known as "ship fever" or as "prison fever", because it makes itself known in crowded conditions, namely aboard ships and in prison.

Scrub typhus, or "chigger-borne typhus", is transmitted and caused by chiggers. Chiggers are found in areas of heavy scrub vegetation. Symptoms of this disease are muscle pain, fever, cough, gastrointestinal symptoms, and headache.

Endemic typhus (also called "murine typhus" and "flea-borne typhus") is transmitted by fleas on rats, and sometimes by fleas carried on cats or possums. This form of typhus will leave you with symptoms of joint pain, headache, chills, nausea, fever, vomiting, and cough.

Typhus is treated with tetracycline or other tetracycline related antibiotics. Rickettsiae causes a number of other diseases, including Rocky Mountain spotted fever, or "Tick typhus", Boutonneuse fever and Rickettsialpox. Typhoid fever is an entirely different disease than typhus and should not be confused with typhus diseases, despite their similar-sounding names.

Die Vorbereitung findet, wie ich schon wusste, vom 10.-21. September statt. Ort wird mir noch gesagt.

Das voraussichtliche Ausreisedatum ist der 25. September 2008!!!!!!!!! waaaaaaa, das freut mich so! :) :) :)

Direkt vor dem Telefonat war ich übrigens beim Arzt, dort hab ich eine Typhus-Impfung, nach vielem Hin und Her und Gesprächen mit der Krankenkasse und Geld ausgeben bei der Apotheke, bekommen. Gekostet hat sie 24,36€.. die Krankenkasse zahlt sie leider nicht, da ich ja keinen Urlaub in Kirgistan mache, sondern dort arbeiten werde... 

Auch wurde geschaut, welche Impfungen nun noch fehlen, bevor ich ausreise.. und es sind nur noch 2 Stück!! Einmal Pertussis und die 2. Impfung von Tetanus und Diphterie. 

Die 3. bekomm ich dann in Kirgistan, genauso wie die 3. Impfung von Hepatitis A/B.

Bei meinem Spenderkreis bin ich inzwischen bei den 20€ monatlich angelangt! Vielen Dank an alle Spender!

Das waren erstmal alle Neuigkeiten zum Thema weltwärts.
Am Montag fange ich aller Voraussicht nach ein Praktikum beim Bosch in der Logistik an. 

Morgen bin ich bei einer Freundin zum Mittagessen eingeladen und danach gehe ich zum Zeiss zum Stipendiatengespräch von AFS. Bin gespannt wie das wird, kann ja jetzt zwischen Voith und Zeiss vergleichen ;)

Am Donnerstag fahr ich dann nach Ulm und treff mich erst mit Anna um einzukaufen und danach gehen wir mit den Freshees (Personen die gerade aus ihrem Austauschjahr zurückgekehrt sind) an die Donau und grillen! :)

Ich freu mich! :)

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It can really only be transferred human to human, and as of now, I really don't plan on playing with human feces. But, you never know, I might get a little crazy (I should make a note that it's usually transferred through water, but that just doesn't sound as exciting as playing with human crap).

According to Wikipedia (which isn't always the most reliable but a great place to get a generalization), if you get Typhoid Fever... it sucks. It lasts for about 4 weeks and usually comes with high fever, rashes, sweating, and diarrhea. See.. that doesn't sound to bad, except for the fact that it LASTS FOR FOUR WEEKS!!!

I think I'll hand over my man card and get the vaccine...

It's hard nowadays to reread the work of de Kruif or Sinclair Lewis without a chuckle or two over their quaint locution, but Zinsser's raffiné account of lice and men remains a delight. Written in 1935 as a latter-day variation on Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Zinsser's book gives a picaresque account of how the history of the world has been shaped by epidemics of louseborne typhus. He sounded a tocsin against microbes in the days before antibiotics, and his challenge remains meaningful today: "Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the chimney corner. . . . About the only sporting proposition that remains unimpaired by the relentless domestication of a once free-living human species is the war against those ferocious little fellow creatures, which lurk in dark corners and stalk us in the bodies of rats, mice and all kinds of domestic animals; which fly and crawl with the insects, and waylay us in our food and drink and even in our love"

If you've not read Zinsser's book, this review will give you lots of reasons why you should.  They don't write history like this for high schools, though they should:

Despite the unwieldy subtitle "Being a study in biography, which, after twelve preliminary chapters indispensable for the preparation of the lay reader, deals with the life history of TYPHUS FEVER," Rats, Lice and History became an international critical and commercial success. Zinsser's romp through the ancient and modern worlds describes how epidemics devastated the Byzantines under Justinian, put Charles V atop the Holy Roman Empire, stopped the Turks at the Carpathians, and turned Napoleon's Grand Armée back from Moscow. He explains how the louse, the ubiquitous vector of typhus, was for most of human history an inevitable part of existence, "like baptism, or smallpox"; its habitat extended from hovel to throne. And after that Murder in the Cathedral, the vectors deserted Thomas à Becket: "The archbishop was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral on the evening of the twenty-ninth of December [1170]. The body lay in the Cathedral all night, and was prepared for burial on the following day…. He had on a large brown mantle; under it, a white surplice; below that, a lamb's-wool coat; then another woolen coat; and a third woolen coat below this; under this, there was the black, cowled robe of the Benedictine Order; under this, a shirt; and next to the body a curious hair-cloth, covered with linen. As the body grew cold, the vermin that were living in this multiple covering started to crawl out, and, as … the chronicler quoted, 'The vermin boiled over like water in a simmering cauldron, and the onlookers burst into alternate weeping and laughter …'"

Ah yes, where have I been? Hmmm, I was ill for - like - a week. I was at home for 8-9 days, and it sucks a lot! :( The general practitioner diagnosed that I had a typhoid fever (typhus) but seems like it was only verda typhus (gejala tipus). I had three bloodchecks in a week, the two last were on Sunday midnight and Monday night. Dammit.

That's why I haven't posted for days... I had to rest -_-

But now I'm on the recovery phase! I'll write again soon! Yay! \\(^o^) //

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1225. Maladie meurtrière causée par la famine qui, à cette époque, régnait dans le pays.
1282. Dysenterie très-violente, déterminée par un trop grand usage de fruits et surtout du raisin.
1348. Maladie èpidémique, aggravée par les inondations de la Meuse et de l'Ourte.
1362. Epidémie qui prit naissance dans le Limbourg, s'étendit à Liège et dans toute la Hesbaye.
1439. Maladie contagieuse qui, suivant un manuscrit cité par Foullon, fit périr à Liège plus de 20,000 personnes.
1519 ou 1520. Maladie très-meurtrière qui sévit à Liège. Pour soigner les malades, on fit un appel aux frères cellites de Hasselt : en récompense de leur zèle, ces religieux respectables furent dotés par les magistrats, et s'établirent à Liège.

1529. Suette anglaise; elle se déclara dans le mois de septembre : les malades atteints de cette affection étaient enlevés en vingt-quatre et quelquefois même en douze heures.
1532. Maladie épidémique qui régna en septembre; on trouva dans les bois un grand nombre d'animaux qui avaient succombé.
1564. Maladie populaire qui fit irruption vers la fin de lété, et disparut en automne.
1579. Le principe de la maladie qui éclata à cette époque vint du camp du duc de Parme au-devant de Maestricht, et s'étendit jusqu'à Liège. Pendant les mois de septembre, octobre et novembre de la même année, la ville de Liège fut entièrement déserte.
1780. Dysenterie qui attaqua surtout la classe indigente.
1793 - 1794. Le typhus régna à Liège. Le centre principal de ses ravages fut l'hôpital Saint-Léonard. Son introduction avait eu lieu par des objets volés aux hôpitaux.
1805. Epidémie de rougeole et de scarlatine très-meurtrière. — Année fort humide.
1814. Typhus qui s'est déclaré à Liège, à l'entrée des Alliés, et qui ne s'est pas propagé au-delà des hôpitaux. "

_{Dictionnaire géographique de la province de Liége, Baron Edmond de Selys-Longchamps, 1831}

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