| The government significantly raised the standard of health, eliminating diseases such as typhus, tuberculosis, and whooping cough. |
| The principal recorded killers were smallpox, influenza, measles, typhoid, typhus, chickenpox, whooping cough, tuberculosis and syphilis. |
| He treated many infectious diseases, including scrub typhus, the subject of his MD thesis. |
| The body louse, Pediculus humanus corporis, is a vector of epidemic typhus, trench fever, and relapsing fever. |
| If murine typhus was misdiagnosed as remittent fever, then typhus was more wide spread than previously considered. |
| Non-battle casualties exceeded 7,000, most of whom suffered from scrub typhus or an undiagnosed fever. |
