Typhus Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.