Word: typhus
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...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...
...Serbs, though outnumbered in population twelve-to-one, in military strength at least three-to-two, repelled three separate Austrian offensives. When they were finally broken by Field Marshal August von Mackensen's heavy Austrian-German-Bulgarian drive in the autumn of 1915, they were riddled by typhus and so short of munitions that their northern Army ran out of cartridges during the retreat. The retreat was no rout. It was a desperate withdrawal across Albania, in which a few thousand men held Babuna Pass for several days against 35,000 Bulgarian attackers, in which King Peter...
From Scratch. The Red Cross Corps had to start literally from scratch, for the entire army was infested with lice, and lice carry typhus and relapsing fever. Bamboo delousing stations have been set up all over China. Many hospitals have no sterilizers, so the doctors use clay pots; surgical instruments are beaten out of old knives. Modern operating tables cost at least $200, but Chinese doctors now build useful tables out of bamboo for ten cents. Only the most essential drugs are used, and often surgeons must operate without anesthetics. But they try to practice 1941 medicine. At present they...
...waiters, to have the coupons clipped for the grams he consumed-and an average meal meant less than four ounces of bread, three ounces of meat, half an ounce of fats-butter, lard or oil. Spain, ravaged long before the war, faced famine as the winter deepened. Typhus appeared in Warsaw. In unoccupied France, as stormy weather swept over the stricken cities, 2,000,000 children seemed doomed to malnutrition and the preventable diseases that go with it. Herbert Hoover, with contacts with most relief agencies, estimated that 18,000,000 people in Finland, Poland, Norway, Belgium and The Netherlands...
...food supply is reduced 15% by blockade, another 15% by poor harvests. Not one in a thousand will drive his own car when and where he pleases or read uncensored news or listen to unpropagandized broadcasts. Comfortable clothing will be a luxury. Many will die of influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis, typhus or cholera. Of Europe's 525,000,000 people, some millions, probably never to be counted, will starve. In this second year of World War II Europe will live in the Dark Ages: in bleak despair from dawn to dusk, in blackness from dusk to dawn...