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Erschienen in: EcoHealth 4/2014

01.12.2014 | Book Review

A Scientist’s Dilemma in Wartime

verfasst von: Jakob Zinsstag

Erschienen in: EcoHealth | Ausgabe 4/2014

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Rickettsia prowazekii, the causative agent of typhus, is transmitted by body lice (Pediculus humanus humanus). Typhus, not be confused with typhoid fever, which is caused by Salmonella typhi, is an illness with a diverse and terrible clinical picture including mental signs that are so dramatic that patients would even attempt suicide, rather than endure the unbearable attacks and suffering. Typhus has become very rare today, and Arthur Allen makes a significant contribution in bringing it again to our attention in “The fantastic laboratory of Dr. Weigl” (Allen 2014).
Literatur
Zurück zum Zitat Allen A (2014) The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis, 1st ed., New York: W.W. Norton & Company Allen A (2014) The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis, 1st ed., New York: W.W. Norton & Company
Zurück zum Zitat Petrowskaja K (2014) Vielleicht Esther: Geschichten, 1st ed., Berlin: Suhrkamp Petrowskaja K (2014) Vielleicht Esther: Geschichten, 1st ed., Berlin: Suhrkamp
Metadaten
Titel
A Scientist’s Dilemma in Wartime
verfasst von
Jakob Zinsstag
Publikationsdatum
01.12.2014
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
EcoHealth / Ausgabe 4/2014
Print ISSN: 1612-9202
Elektronische ISSN: 1612-9210
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-014-0983-2

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