epidemic typhus in a sentence

Examples

1. The severe overcrowding, rampant hunger, and outbreaks of epidemic typhus took the lives of 4, 000 people before mid-1942.
2. In one of its first major outbreaks since World War II, epidemic typhus reemerged in 1995 in a jail in N Gozi, Burundi.
3. He contracted a recurring fever and epidemic typhus, but refused to take leave and remained in the war-torn Moldavia region until demobilization.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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 ).