Sentences with phrase «typhus epidemic»
A lice - borne typhus epidemic swept westward from Russia in the early 20th century, and by World War II, German troops in trenches on the Eastern Front were falling fast to the disease.
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Even mountains of corpses and emaciated, half - dead survivors prove nothing for the deniers, who say simply that these are unfortunate victims of typhus or cholera epidemics.
Probably half a billion people are alive now who would be dead except for the use of DDT to eradicate malaria, typhus, and other epidemic scourges in the poorer countries.
They fell victim to epidemic waves of smallpox, measles, influenza, bubonic plague, diphtheria, typhus, cholera, -LSB-...]
Suddenly there were epidemics of smallpox, cholera, typhus, and malaria, diseases unknown to hunter - gatherers, and so began an evolutionary arms race to fend off the assault through superior immunity.