Sentence examples for epidemics of typhus from inspiring English sources

Crowded, cold, filthy conditions, combined with the lack of clean water and scarcity of food and medical care, resulted in epidemics of typhus, malaria and scarlet fever.

Recognizable descriptions of the disease occur in European literature from the Middle Ages on, and devastating epidemics of typhus continued to occur intermittently throughout Europe in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

Authorities responded to epidemics of typhus and dysentery the result of overcrowding in the camp by shooting the sick.

The long-term collections of historical data have provided insight into epidemics of typhus during the era before antimicrobial drugs.

During World War II, several potentially severe epidemics of typhus, especially the epidemic in Naples, Italy, in 1943 1944, were averted by dusting at-risk populations with DDT.

Historical citations from Mexico during 1655 1918 leave no doubt that drought and famine were associated with some serious epidemics of typhus.

In 1848, Virchow served on a commission to investigate an epidemic of typhus, for which he wrote a penetrating report that criticized the social conditions that fostered the spread of the disease.

Written in 1935 as a latter-day variation on Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Zinsser's book gives a picaresque account of how the history of the world has been shaped by epidemics of louseborne typhus.

The largest recent outbreak since World War II was in Burundi in the mid 90s, where modern molecular techniques were used to show that a single outbreak of "jail fever" sparked an extensive epidemic of louseborne typhus in the refugee camps of Rwanda, Burundi, and Zaire countries racked by ongoing civil war and genocide (13).

The market experiment has produced more orphans than Russia's 20m-plus wartime casualties, while epidemics of cholera and typhus have re-emerged, millions of children suffer from malnutrition and adult life expectancy has plunged.

Joseph Goldberger (1874-1929), a physician who served in the United States Public Health Service, fought epidemics of typhoid, dengue, typhus, and yellow fevers, as well as measles and diphtheria but it is his campaign against pellagra in the Southern United States for which he is best known.