TYPHUS
- infectious disease transmitted by lice and fleas and characterized by reddish spots on the skin
- any of various bacterial diseases caused by rickettsias as
- severe human febrile disease that is caused by one (Rickettsia prowazekii) transmitted especially by body lice and is marked by high fever, stupor alternating with delirium, intense headache, and a dark red rash
- rine typhus
- rub typhus
- an infectious disease [n TYPHUSES] : TYPHOUS [adj]