Typhus fever, also called typhus, is a disease that occurs throughout Pern in areas where people and rats occupy the same buildings and where large numbers of mice live. Anyone can get typhus but it occurs more often in people whose occupations or living conditions bring them into contact with rats.

Typhus is not directly spread from person to person. People get typhus after infective rat fleas contaminate fresh skin wounds or the flea-bite site.

Symptoms of typhus include fever, headache, chills, and general pains that are followed by a rash. The rash spreads to the whole body except for the face, palms, and soles of the feet.

This form of typhus fever is very similar to the typhus that is spread by lice (louse-borne typhus), but it is milder. A person cannot get typhus fever more than once. The symptoms may appear from 1 to 2 sevendays after the flea bite, usually within 12 days.

Rats, mice and possibly other small mammals harbor the germ that causes disease. Fleas become infected by biting these animals and then may pass the disease to humans. Typhus can be prevented by avoiding contact with flea-infested rats and mice.

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