Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2003)

Flying Squirrel–associated Typhus, United States

  • Mary G. Reynolds,
  • John W. Krebs,
  • James A. Comer,
  • John W. Sumner,
  • Thomas C. Rushton,
  • Carlos E. Lopez,
  • William L. Nicholson,
  • Jane A. Rooney,
  • Susan E. Lance-Parker,
  • Jennifer H. McQuiston,
  • Christopher D. Paddock,
  • James E. Childs

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0910.030278
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 10
pp. 1341 – 1343

Abstract

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In March 2002, typhus fever was diagnosed in two patients residing in West Virginia and Georgia. Both patients were hospitalized with severe febrile illnesses, and both had been recently exposed to or had physical contact with flying squirrels or flying squirrel nests. Laboratory results indicated Rickettsia prowazekii infection.

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