The severe overcrowding, rampant hunger, and outbreaks of epidemic typhus took the lives of 4, 000 people before mid-1942.
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In one of its first major outbreaks since World War II, epidemic typhus reemerged in 1995 in a jail in N Gozi, Burundi.
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He contracted a recurring fever and epidemic typhus, but refused to take leave and remained in the war-torn Moldavia region until demobilization.
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In the meantime, epidemic typhus had begun to spread within the walls of Gaeta : Francis'field adjutant was himself struck down and died on December 12.
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Due to fear of an outbreak of epidemic typhus, the US Government put a typhus quarantine in place in 1917 across the entirety of the US-Mexican border.
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However, in resource-limited settings, it still remains an important tool in the diagnosis and identification of public health concerns, such as outbreaks of epidemic typhus.
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A 2005 study found discovered higher seroprevalence of R . prowazekii in homeless populations in two shelters in Marseilles, France, noting the hallmarks of epidemic typhus and relapsing fever .
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An increase in the incidence of malaria, epidemic typhus, dysentery, and typhoid fever led to its use against the mosquitoes, lice, and houseflies that carried these diseases.
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Following the Assize held at Oxford in 1577, later deemed the Black Assize, over 300 died from epidemic typhus, including High Sheriff, the sergeant, and hundreds of others.
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Other diseases that may recur following a short or long period of quiescence include shingles ( after chicken pox ), oral herpes and genital herpes, and Brill Zinsser disease ( after epidemic typhus ).
