Sentence examples for outbreak of typhus from inspiring English sources

Henry immediately turned his attention to his wife's Sicilian inheritance, but an outbreak of typhus forced him to abandon his plans and return north.

In January 1944 DDT was used to quash an outbreak of typhus carried by lice in Naples, the first time a winter typhus epidemic had been stopped.

The subjects include the city's 722-mile subway system, a literary enclave of French intellectuals in 1940's Manhattan and a quarantine of Eastern European Jews during an outbreak of typhus and cholera in 1892.

Los Angeles officials have pledged hundreds of thousands of dollars and created a dedicated taskforce to fight an outbreak of typhus, as a city of glittering wealth grapples with a disease linked to intense poverty.

Early in 1848 Virchow was appointed by the Prussian government to investigate an outbreak of typhus in Upper Silesia; his subsequent report laid the blame for the outbreak on social conditions and on the government.

Some of them died". Towards the end of 1943, Mr Ferster fell seriously ill during an outbreak of typhus in one particular camp.

Soon the World Health Organization was threatened with potential outbreaks of typhus and plague, which it would itself have created, and had to call in RAF Singapore to conduct Operation Cat Drop parachuting a great many live cats into Borneo.

To be clear, there is no evidence that outbreaks of typhus are caused by homeless encampments.

During the early years of settlement, the river acted as both the city's primary water source and main sewer, leading to outbreaks of typhus and cholera.

Recent outbreaks of typhus have occurred in Burundi, Algeria, Peru, and Russia (1, 2 ).

I'm proud to say that UNICEF's water and sanitation supplies are now in Tacloban, where they will help prevent much-feared outbreaks of typhus and cholera.