Word: typhus
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Despite doubts about the role of rats in long-ago typhus epidemics, there is no doubt that they and their fleas transmit what doctors call murine typhus, a milder but perennial and widespread form of the disease. In their travels from sewers to trash cans to kitchens, rats may carry the germs of epidemic jaundice, tularemia, typhoid fever and severe food poisoning, the parasites of trichinosis, and even rabies virus...
...Harvard scientists have produced a synthetic hormone that kills body lice every time. The little mites carry epidemic typhus, trench fever, epidemic relapsing fever and other things that can make you feel out of sorts...
...infectious disease center where researchers will study such diseases as malaria and typhus will be equipped with its own air exhaust system and an electronic incinerator to insure that no contaminants escape into the outside air. The rest of the building will make use of three separate air exhaust systems, not counting the systems used by the infectious disease center. Before the air from these other three system used by air from these other three systems is exhausted it will pass over an ultraviolet light source for sterilization...
...city $35,000 a month for treatment of drug abuse, warned that with a summer influx there was serious danger of epidemics in infectious hepatitis (from needles exchanged in shooting amphetamines), venereal disease (already up six times from the city's 1964 rate), and other illnesses ranging from typhus to malnutrition...
...There he learned the trick of office consensus, if only to keep the trains moving. Twice he was sent to China as a railways adviser during the Japanese war there, and during World War II served as director of a motor pool. He also contracted a serious case of typhus, and while recuperating read an article on the passivity of the Asian masses by U.S. Author Pearl Buck that changed his way of thinking. "Reviewing the past of Japan," he says, "I felt there had been something essentially wrong about our approach to government. It was vitally important...