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Science and Nature Quiz for 5 October 2016

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Question 1: Which highly contagious disease, characterised by the sudden onset of rigor, headache, delirium and fever, followed by a rash, is caused by a virus conveyed by lice?

A
Typhoid fever
B
Typhus
C
Measles
D
Whooping cough