typhus

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According to the CDC’s website, while some rare cases of typhus can be persistent, the disease can be easily treated with a round of antibiotics, if caught early.

From Los Angeles Times

The hope was that typhus, malnutrition and starvation would relieve the Nazis of the necessity of face-to-face murder.

From Los Angeles Times

The smell of corpses told her why she was required to get typhus and typhoid vaccinations before her arrival.

From Seattle Times

Sure enough, typhus, which is transmitted by lice bites, spread through the ghetto with a pace compared to that of a forest fire by contemporary observers.

From Washington Post

Prosecutors argued that the SS guard was complicit in the deaths of 5,000 people who died of typhus, 200 who were gassed and 30 who were executed.

From The Guardian