Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Brill-Zinsser disease is a type of epidemic typhus (caused by the organism Rickettsia prowazekii) which recurs in someone after a long period of latency (similar to the relationship between chickenpox and shingles). This type of recurrence can also occur in immunosuppressed patients. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.