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  2. Cold injury - Wikipedia

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    Cold injury (or cold weather injury) is damage to the body from cold exposure, including hypothermia and several skin injuries. [6] Cold-related skin injuries are categorized into freezing and nonfreezing cold injuries. [5] Freezing cold injuries involve tissue damage when exposed to temperatures below freezing (less than 0 degrees Celsius).

  3. Epidemic typhus - Wikipedia

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    Completely changing the clothing, washing the infested clothing in hot water, and in some cases also treating recently used bedsheets all help to prevent typhus by removing potentially infected lice. Clothes left unworn and unwashed for 7 days also result in the death of both lice and their eggs, as they have no access to a human host. [16]

  4. Hypothermia - Wikipedia

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    A water temperature of 10 °C (50 °F) can lead to death in as little as one hour, and water temperatures near freezing can cause death in as little as 15 minutes. [37] During the sinking of the Titanic, most people who entered the −2 °C (28 °F) water died in 15–30 minutes. [38]

  5. Here’s how long it takes to freeze to death: The dangerous ...

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    Life-threatening and bitter cold is impacting much of the U.S. as a deadly winter storm continues to sweep the Southeast. This week, a storm dropped historic amounts of snow on Florida, Texas and ...

  6. Typhus - Wikipedia

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    Without treatment, death may occur in 10% to 60% of people with epidemic typhus, with people over age 50 having the highest risk of death. [19] In the antibiotic era, death is uncommon if doxycycline is given. In one study of 60 people hospitalized with epidemic typhus, no one died when given doxycycline or chloramphenicol. [20]

  7. Frostbite - Wikipedia

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    The pathological mechanism by which frostbite causes body tissue injury can be characterized by four stages: Prefreeze, freeze-thaw, vascular stasis, and the late ischemic stage. [16] Prefreeze phase: involves the cooling of tissues without ice crystal formation. [16] Freeze-thaw phase: ice-crystals form, resulting in cellular damage and death ...

  8. Don't freeze to death in DayZ! - AOL

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    Just in time for the holiday season, you can now die a horrible death from the cold in one of the most popular zombie. As if there weren't enough dangers in DayZ to worry about, as of Update 0.49 ...

  9. Treatment of human lice - Wikipedia

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    The treatment of human lice is the removal of head lice parasites from human hair. It has been debated and studied for centuries. It has been debated and studied for centuries. However, the number of cases of human louse infestations (or pediculosis ) has increased worldwide since the mid-1960s, reaching hundreds of millions annually. [ 1 ]