Few diseases are more gruesome than typhus.
In the 1920s, Weigl had created the first Typhus vaccine using a method as bold as i.
For this they turned to the brilliant and eccentric Polish zoologist Rudolf Weigl.
The disease plagued the German army on the Eastern Front and left the Reich desperate for a vaccine.
Transmitted by body lice, it afflicts the dispossessed--refugees, soldiers, and ghettoized peoples--causing hallucinations, terrible headaches, boiling fever, and often death.
Few diseases are more gruesome than typhus