Word: typhus
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...studied bedbugs in India and British Guiana, says in Public Health Reports that the bedbug has been accused of carrying the microbes of no fewer than 30 infectious diseases: anthrax, brucellosis, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, leprosy, paratyphoid fever, plague, pneumococcal pneumonia, staphylococcal septicemia, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid fever, boutonneuse fever, epidemic typhus, exanthematous typhus, Q fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, relapsing fever, epidemic jaundice (Brazzaville), sleeping sickness, encephalomyelitis, influenza, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, poliomyelitis, smallpox, yellow fever, Chagas' disease, malaria, oriental sore, mansonelliasis, onchocerciasis...
...Russia. In the five years of Ireland's Potato Famine (1845-49), 1,500,000 of the Irish perished-most of them starved to death. They wandered the road and died in ditches. Beggars could get nothing when all were beggars and there was nothing worth the begging. Typhus appeared. Whole villages became rotten cemeteries. The blind windows of the huts stared from their whitewashed walls like eyes in so many skulls...
...Brown hammered away at the 20,000 known new cases and 4,000 deaths annually in the U.S. If there had been only one-fourth as many cases of disease and death due to smallpox, typhus, plague or malaria, he said, there would have been virtual panic: "All the medical and public health resources of the nation would have been mustered." Why had syphilis been allowed to make such a comeback after the near knockout of the 19503? Dr. Brown answered his own question...
...square miles of territory. There are no subplots, and no Ava Gardners miraculously rising out of the rice paddies. There is no false construction toward some climactic victory. It is just a steady series of small victories and long marches, constant death, pervading disease-malaria, typhus, amoebic dysentery, psychoneurosis-and the ultimate wonder that anyone survived...
Modern technology has obliterated the frontiers of disease. Thanks to jet planes, a louse brushed from the sleeve of a beggar in an Oriental bazaar may attach itself to a tourist who will land in San Francisco next day-already infected with typhus...