Fundamentals Of Microbiology 10th Edition by Jeffrey Pommerville

Exercise 12

Some estimates place epidemic typhus among the all-time killers of humans; one listing even has it in third place behind malaria and plague. In 1997, during a civil war, an outbreak of epidemic typhus occurred in the African country of Burundi. The outbreak was estimated to be the worst since World War II. What conditions may have led to this epidemic