A US soldier demonstrating DDT-hand spraying equipment. DDT was used to control the spread of typhus-carrying lice during WWII. | Centre for Disease Control/Public Domain Captain Douglas Peterkin ...

About 4,000 Jews remain confined in the Theresienstedt ghetto because of the typhus epidemic raging in the camp, according to internees arriving from there today. They say that there are ...

Katsutoshi Takegami’s curiosity was piqued when he discovered a wooden box containing a large number of old photos showing ...

The largest artifact in the touring exhibition Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away., currently on display at the ROM in ...

Australian social activist and community stalwart Miriam (Mina) Fink was born on 5 December 1913 at Bialystok, Poland.  She was the second of three children of Nathan Waks, a merchant, and his wife, ...

The Irish community’s annual “Walk to the Stone” took place recently, continuing its long tradition. The 2.1 km walk leads to ...

By Kristin Robinson Senior Writer Stockholm-born music library giant Epidemic Sound is launching a new remix series, called Extra Version, on Wednesday (May 28) with help from DJ/producer Honey Dijon.

Doctors told the family the reason he experienced sepsis to being with was because Kohlhof had contracted typhus. The flea bite had also caused tissue death in both his hands and feet.

“Basically what we are seeing is an epidemic of teens hurting themselves, or killing themselves at a rate we’ve never seen before in Texas history,” he says. “These machine learned ...

Senior-level Democrats across the country are facing an epidemic. Some cases are benign, but in others it is quite acute, with symptoms resembling insanity. And in every instance, unless properly ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

If, in 2025, you’re going to exploit the AIDS epidemic, you had better have a compelling reason. Or, at the very least, something of value to say, even if it’s been said before. But to ...