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Ep 86 Typhus: Another lousy episode

This Podcast Will Kill You

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We Learned About Diseases in Abstract

i learned in researching this episode, something i didn't know, which was that anne frank likely died in a typhus epidemic that killed 17 thousand people at bergen belson in the last months of world war too. And then im an to talk about, maybe not uplifting, but an inspiring part of the story. There was a polish physician and biologist named ludwick fleck who worked alongside wegel in his laboratory during the 19 twenties. But unlike wegel, fle was jewish, and so was eventually excluded from academia entirely. He started a private lab, and he remained connected to the academic community as much as possible. In many ways, he was like way ahead

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