Word: typhus
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Hunger walked into Greece and planted a plague of typhus. Hunger appeared in French schoolrooms and the children fainted. Hunger rubbed its hands over the faces of Polish peasants and left cadavers. Then hunger appeared at the boundaries of Germany...
Before he went they inoculated him against tetanus, typhoid, typhus, smallpox, cholera, yellow fever. The nine shots in rapid-fire almost floored...
...Recently there have been many instances of envelopes mailed at field posts containing live lice to show to families. The senders do not realize the danger . . . of spreading typhus. ... A mutual comradely education must prevent the country from being subjected to such acts...
...World War I a supposedly exhausted Serbia hurled back two Austrian attacks, was ravaged by typhus and gave way before a third, then fought back again from Salonika. Only a year ago a revolution in Yugoslavia, where the dream of Balkan federation was becoming an actual as well as a political fact, deposed the pro-Nazi regent Prince Paul, and Serbian General Dusan Simovich courageously challenged the juggernaut of Adolf Hitler. In Draja Mihailovich's mountains the challenge persists today...
Cholera is no longer as serious a military problem as it formerly was; it is far less of a menace to the Japanese army than Polish and Russian typhus is to the Germans. Reasons: 1) unlike typhus, cholera can be controlled by vaccination-repeated twice a year-in which the Japanese were pioneers; 2) while there is no specific treatment besides potassium permanganate pills, the spread of the disease can be checked by sterilizing drinking water, cooking all food. Typhus can be controlled only by exterminating lice...