Word: typhus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Spread typhus among whole divisions...
...Athens and Peiraeus alone, between 1,700 and 2,000 men, women & children are dying each day. Not all starve to death. Cholera, typhus, typhoid and dysentery run like a licking brush fire through the weakened population. In mountain settlements and island villages people live a little better. They can find roots, herbs and mussels...
Adolf Hitler's eastern drive has left behind it a vast morass of filth and malnutrition. Figures published in Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s Statistical Bulletin show that in Poland in 1940 typhus increased ten times over 1939, in 1941 three times over 1940. In London last week Anthony Eden told Parliament that typhus was epidemic from the Russian front through eastern and southeastern Europe. Lithuania and Rumania were reported full of it. The Warsaw ghetto, crammed with Jews by Nazi command, was said to be a hell of typhus. Elsewhere in Poland the Nazis were capitalizing...
...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...
German Army medicine is presumably as efficient as most other things about the German forces. But even as the efficient Germans have suffered setbacks from the Russians, they are now suffering setbacks from typhus&151;and each enemy's success makes the successes of the other easier...