Ep 86 Typhus: Another lousy episode
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The History of Infectious Diseases
i hope you take away from this episode an appreciation for the enormous and horrible impact that typhus has had. Alongside death in war is death in pestilence, death in famine. The first hand account that i read described a typhus outbreak in ships of irish emigrants fleeing during the great famine of around 18 forty five 18 52. In that famine, there were an estimated one million excess deaths, including typhus. And that same thing has happened time and time again in wars, where casualties from infectious disease outweigh those from bat. I'm also accompanied by some very descriptive quotes of body lice and the problems with them,. But, but it's taken us this long,
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