Word: typhus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blond Aryans with the louse complex were threatened by their blood brothers last week. Typhus was spreading through Poland to the Baltic States. Most of it was spotted typhus, carried by lice. German officials, settlers and soldiers were warned to avoid all contact with Polish "natives." Schools were closed in at least one town, Krakivsk Visty, Poland...
...World War I the Serbs gained a nine-month breather because German and Austrian troops were afraid to attack lest they be swamped by the typhus epidemic in Serbia. Russia was the highest loser, with 10,000,000 cases, of which 2,000,000 were fatal. With the same fear and figures in mind, the German Army was not sure last week which it feared most, the Russian before or the louse behind...
...Moscow front knew last week was that he was being attacked by Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov, the new Red Chief of Staff, by Colonel Winter, who knew the weak points of German uniforms, by Captain Mud, who was a bear on tanks, and by Private Cootie, who carries typhus bullets in his magazine. Something was not right with the German plan...
...riboflavin (vitamin B2) invariably become lousy. This condition never occurs with other vitamin deficiencies, so it is not related to general physical weakness. Doses of riboflavin quickly drive the lice away. Dr. Gyorgy hopes the treatment will soon be tried on human beings, for lice carry the germs of typhus. >Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud of Cornell told how three groups of men in three separate laboratories recently turned up one of the original vitamin substances, biotin (recognized 40 years ago). Dr. du Vigneaud, who analyzed its structure, said that biotin is extremely powerful, very difficult to make. Only...
...ticks is infected. The ticks, which are brown, about three-sixteenths of an inch long, with eight spiny legs, carry within their bodies a virus of the family Rickettsia (named after Howard Taylor Ricketts, one of the martyred scientists). Another form of Rickettsia is the virus of typhus fever. A tick passes on the virus through a bite; the virus also may penetrate the skin if a tick is crushed between the fingers...