Word: lice
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...village Commander Moloney saw 500 natives who had been thoroughly bombed, shot at, and finally driven to live like animals in caves. Some of the maimed had raw wounds alive with maggots. All suffered from malnutrition, skin diseases, lice. Yet of the 500 who had been through a nerve-shattering ordeal that drove many a Jap to suicide and many a G.I. into the mental ward, only one Okinawan cracked up.-Psychiatrist Moloney, in the current Psychiatry, jumped to a long conclusion. He figured that Okinawans get a good psychological start in life. Until an Okinawan baby is three...
...road runs past several largish buildings. These had been cleared; and now we began to meet the liberated. Several hundred Russians, French, Yugoslavs, Italians and Poles were here, frantically, hysterically happy. They began to kiss us, and there is nothing you can do when a lot of hysterical, unshaven, lice-bitten, half-drunk, typhus-infected men want to kiss you. Nothing at all. You cannot hit them, and besides, they all kiss you at the same time. It is no good trying to explain that you are only a correspondent. A half-dozen of them were especially happy...
...living lay side by side with the dead, their shriveled limbs and shrunken features making them almost indistinguishable. Women tore away their clothing and scratched the hordes of lice which fed on their emaciated bodies; rotten with dysentery, they relieved themselves where they lay and the stench was appalling. Naked bodies with gaping wounds in their backs and chests showed where those who still had the strength to use a knife had cut out the kidneys, livers and hearts of their fellow men and eaten them that they themselves might live...
Already 500 cases of lice-borne typhus (more serious than the flea-borne type) have been discovered in the western cities overrun by U.S. troops. The German concentration camp of 60,000 near Hanover is typhus-infected. According to a New York Times report, advancing British troops last week were giving the camp a wide berth. An infinitely greater danger is expected in Germany's heart, where as early as 1943 German doctors were battling 5,000 cases. To arrest the spread of infection, the Allies have abandoned plans to hasten released Allied prisoners to the west side...
...Danger. The U.S. endemic (localized) typhus kills only about 1% of its victims, mostly old people. But the same bacterium-like organism can cause the terrible European epidemic typhus, which is spread by human lice and kills from 5 to 70% of its victims, depending on the virulence of the organism. Apparently, living with a louse makes the germ vicious...