Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Just as the only reservoir for the typhus virus in nature is provided by man, so the only vector of infection is the louse. The bite of the louse is not virulent immediately after the infecting meal. It becomes so only towards the 7th day following infection.

Scientist

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today.

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.

Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread.

Ferdinand Buisson

We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.

French Activist

Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it.

I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse.

It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

French Writer

Emphasizes the serious nature and potential danger of the illness.

Disease Severity

Not from person-to-person contact, but spread through lice or fleas.

Transmission Vectors

Usually associated with poor hygiene and crowded conditions.

Context of Outbreaks

 on the pretense of checking for typhus outbreaks. At first, her group worked to smuggle in resources with the help of sympathetic Polish officials and the medical underground. But as desperate parents began sending their children through sewers and over walls,

How one person saved...

 that she realized more soldiers were dying of typhus and cholera and dysentery than from their battle wounds and that's what led to her breakthrough that hygiene and sanitation were the key

Breaking boundaries,...

 And besides that, it reminded me of ancient epidemics that were previously completely misunderstood because the science hadn't been there before, epidemics of plague or typhus or leprosy,

Typhus