Typhus Disease Research Paper

The outburst spread of diseases in a population causes people to panic and become hopeless. The main reason diseases spread is due to unsanitary living styles. Also when a disease first begins, it is really hard to find a cure right away. A very deadly, infectious disease known as Typhus spread during the Holocaust. Typhus is caused by rickettsia and is spread by lice and flees.

The main cause of Typhus was the lack of medicine and unhygienic environment. When the prisoners were sent to the ghetto, they had nothing to clean with or did not have anything at all to their places with. This caused thousands of people to die a slow and painful death. When Typhus broke out in the worst ghettos it spread really fast. It not only harmed the prisoners, but also affected all of Germany. When a prisoner would come in contact with Typhus the camp administrator would tell them that they were going to have a disinfection bath, while in reality they were going to die. Prisoners would have the mentality that they were going to take a bath, but instead they would be all put to death. Hitler did not care about anyone which was what he wanted to show people. He basically wanted all of them to die and if they had the disease, that just gave him one more reason to kill them. Given poor conditions guaranteed that most of them would get the disease. Then getting the disease guaranteed them death. So, basically there was no way of getting out of this mess they were going to die one way or another.

The last time Typhus was recorded was by the British Troops during World War II. They had forty two cases of Typhus in 1942 and that was one year after the allied forces arrived. Then the year after that there was five hundred and eighty two cases of Typhus...

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...perly, so everything went wrong. From their poor services, food, water, and sanitation, people started to die because of diseases which mainly broke out with Typhus. After the situations became bad, they separated the camp by adding another camp a mile and a half away. Then when the situations went worse, they changed the second camp to be a temporary hospital and rehab camp. But regardless of their efforts Typhus still spread, killing five hundred people a day. When this information broke out to people, it was seen as a living nightmare. There was a massive amount of people that started to die and people started burning the dead people’s bodies. They had no other choice, but to burn them. From the amount of people dying, the British army had to replace troops for bulldozers to move the thousands of bodies. After this horror story, many Jews immigrated to Palestine.