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Focuses on the typhus fever outbreak in the village of San Joaquín in Bolivia in 1962. Background on the death of farmer Julio Anes; Efforts of epidemiologist Ronald MacKenzie to search for the cause of the disease; Details of the investigation on the cause of the disease.

This article presents the author's story of the effort of the U.S. Army physicians to eradicate typhus that is killing U.S. soldiers in the battlefront of Naples, Italy. The mortality of typhus in Europe and Asia are devastating, millions of people died in the Balkans, Poland and Russian from typhus during 1915. The U.S. Army and Navy with other government agencies and private sectors at pooling their resources for control typhus epidemic

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.