Word: typhus
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...Women and children are dropping dead of hunger on the streets in Bessarabia.* Many others are found dead in their homes in Poland. A horrible scourge of typhus is sweeping over the Jews in both lands. . . Children eat what they can find in garbage cans . . . sleep in alleys, in cellars. . . . Hundreds are killing themselves . . . the Jews of America must respond...
...married Count Kuno von Rantzau, scion of a distinguished Schleswig-Holstein house. She had been in love with the scintillant young Count Eulenberg. Her father's triumphs up to that time, after the peace of Vienna, after "1870", had brought Europe literally to the feet of the Bismarcks. But typhus fever swept away her lover, so she married Count Rantzu, who later was German Ambassador to Holland...
...fortnight ago Boris was reported the near victim of typhus bacilii interlarded by "a suspicious cook" in his dessert. Last April he returned the fire of assassins who intercepted his car near Sofia. Last December he made a "courting tour of Europe, in search of a bride." TIME chronicled these events (Sept. 14 and April...
...progress of contagious diseases during the past year. Epidemics this spring have been slight. Though measles are on the up, smallpox is less prevalent in the U. S. and Canada than ever before. Diphtheria has Increased in Western and Central Europe ; influenza in Sweden, in Denmark. The incidence of typhus remains unusually low throughout Eastern Europe...
...course of the trial, it was established that the Russian Embassy in Berlin has been used as headquarters for Red revolutionaries, that vast quantities of typhus germs had been bought for the purpose of starting an epidemic, that many highly placed Germans had been marked down for assassination, that complete plans for a terrorist movement had been matured...