Word: lice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Malaria, dysentery, yellow fever head the list of tropical diseases to be fought in World War II by the U.S. Medical Corps. Of the three, malaria, against which there is no true prophylactic, is Medical Enemy No. 1. How to protect U.S. soldiers from the rats, lice, mosquitoes, fleas and flies that carry malaria, dysentery, yellow fever, cholera is again a major problem...
...cloak of proletarian fervor. He contrasted himself again & again, the protector of the poor, with plutocratic foes. Lest Germans be disturbed, however, by thoughts that the Russians are also convinced proletarians of long standing, the country was plastered with posters showing German soldiers suffering from "Communistic dirt, filth, lice, disorganization, lack of most essential commodities...
...louse feeds on human blood and abhors soap. But where there is no cleansing disturbance the louse flourishes&151;the female easily produces over 100 mature offspring in two months. Typhus epidemics begin when lice suck up typhus germs with the blood of infected human beings, carry the germs to others and infect them. The lice themselves eventually die of the disease they carry&151;after they have spread it among...
...Warsaw ghetto, crammed with Jews by Nazi command, was said to be a hell of typhus. Elsewhere in Poland the Nazis were capitalizing on the disease with anti-Semitic posters. One, picturing a gigantic louse and a horribly caricatured Jewish face, was lettered simply JEWS&151;LICE&151;SPOTTED TYPHUS. At the same time the Nazis were said to be pressing into service all available Jewish doctors...
Germany's subversive underground radio reported that the disease had spread west ward as far as Berlin. The British radio told of a Nazi questionnaire sent to directors of Berlin shelters for foreign workers. In part it read: "Are there vermin in the camp, particularly lice? Who last exterminated lice and when?" British reports also said that normal travel between Germany and the eastern occupied zones had been suspended. Alarmed by news that typhus was also increasing in Spain and North Africa, even the British Government called medical conferences...