1. BLITZ PLAGUE.
- Author
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Kobler, John
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LICE , *TYPHUS fever , *DISEASE outbreaks , *MILITARY personnel , *BACTERIAL vaccines - Abstract
The article focuses on the body louse which carries the typhus microbe that killed a number of people in Europe and Asia as of 1942. There was an outbreak of the typhus fever among German soldiers in France. An antityphus vaccine was developed and armed the U.S. soldiers. Hans Zinsser of the American Red Cross Sanitary Commission to Serbia, comments on the victory of typhus on war.
- Published
- 1942