GC: S: MedlinePlus – http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001363.htm (last access: 25 May 2014); Healthline – https://www.healthline.com/health/typhus (last access: 3 March 2020). N: 1. typhus (n.): acute infectious fever, usually accompanied by prostration, delirium, and small reddish spots, 1785, from medical Latin, from Greek typhos “stupor caused by fever,” literally “smoke,” from typhein “to