Tetracycline, chloramphenicol, and doxycycline are commonly used. Infection can also be prevented by vaccination.Some of the simplest methods of prevention and treatment focus on preventing infestation of body lice. 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. Another form of lice prevention requires dusting infested clothing with a powder consisting of 10% DDT, 1% malathion, or 1% permethrin, which kill lice and their eggs.Other preventive measures for individuals are to avoid unhygienic, extremely overcrowded areas where the causative organisms can jump from person to person. In addition, they are warned to keep a distance from larger rodents that carry lice, such as rats, squirrels, or opossums. History
History of outbreaks
Before 19th century
During the second year of the Peloponnesian War (430 BC), the city-state of Athens in ancient Greece had an epidemic, known as the Plague of Athens, which killed, among others, Pericles and his two elder sons. The plague returned twice more, in 429 BC and in the winter of 427/6 BC. Epidemic typhus is proposed as a strong candidate for the cause of this disease outbreak, supported by both medical and scholarly opinions. The first description of typhus was probably given in 1083 at La Cava abbey near Salerno, Italy.
Surgery to the urethra to remove kidney stones has been described since at least the first century AD by Aulus Cornelius Celsus. Additional images
See also
Perineal urethra
Vulvovaginal health
Urethral glands
Urethral sponge
Sexual stimulation: Urethral sounding and Urethral intercourse
Urethrorrhagia
Urethrotomy
Internal urethral orifice

References
External links
Histology at KUMC epithel-epith07 "Male Urethra"