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Typhus is an acute infectious disease which, by its clinical evolution, its contagiousness and the conditions under which immunity is conferred shows considerable resemblance to ordinary measles.
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"Typhus," says a medical officer, "is a curse which man inflicts upon himself by the neglect of sanitary arrangements."
Thrift Samuel Smiles 1858
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In his great encyclopedia of animals, Professor Grzimek writes about the danger of the body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus), which can transmit the fatal disease typhus (Typhus exanthematicus).
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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In his great encyclopedia of animals, Professor Grzimek writes about the danger of the body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus), which can transmit the fatal disease typhus (Typhus exanthematicus).
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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In his great encyclopedia of animals, Professor Grzimek writes about the danger of the body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus), which can transmit the fatal disease typhus (Typhus exanthematicus).
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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I am sorry to inform you that we have had a great deal of Fever around us lately, but not very fatal, though of the Typhus kind I believe.
Letter 305 2009
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In his great encyclopedia of animals, Professor Grzimek writes about the danger of the body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus), which can transmit the fatal disease typhus (Typhus exanthematicus).
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Typhus confers an immunity on its survivors, which, though not permanent, may last for years.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Typhus, a stormy disease, with erratic, vaporous fevers, arose from the Greek tuphon, the father of winds—a word that also gives rise to the modern typhoon.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Typhus epidemics broke out in other German prison camps as well.
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