Typhus fever in Italy, 1943-1945, and its control with louse powder.

The Experimental Infection of the Human Body Louse, Pediculus Humanus Corporis, with Murine and Epidemic Louse-borne Typhus Strains

Experiments are described which demonstrate that human body lice (Pediculus humanus corporis), were infected experimentally with murine and epidemic louse-borne strains of typhus fever by feeding on suitably prepared rabbits. Details of the two methods of infection, the "bleb technique" and the "I.V. technique," are presented. It is concluded that the experimental infection of human lice with t...

An Outbreak of Typhus Fever (OXK) in India

Wuse . Borne Typhus Fever in the European Thea -

EPIDEMIC louse-borne typhus fever has always developed its greatest potentialities under conditions of war and famine. Medical intelligence summaries of the Office of the Chief Surgeon, European Theater of Operations, U. S. Army, medical notes of the health division of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, and the weekly epidemiological records of the Health Section of the Se...

Typhus Fever among Recent Immigrants

It is experimentally demonstrated in the guinea pig that the blood from an infected Czecho-Slovakian arriving at the Port of New York from Italy contained the virus of typhus fever and that this strain is identical with the epidemic virus present in man and louse in Poland.

A Report on Thirty Cases of Typhus Fever (Louse Borne) *This article was written when the writer was working as a Pathologist in Persia-Iraq Force.

Louse-borne typhus fever was reported to be prevalent in German armies in Poland, Baltic states and the Ukraine in the latter part of 1941 and in 1942. Early in 1943, this wave of epidemic reached us in ' Paiforce Our troops with a few exceptions were not affected because of efficient and rigid prophylaxis. The disease raged in an epidemic form amongst the civilians in certain places. The few c...