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City Hall Faces Medieval Illness
City Hall Faces Medieval Illness

City Hall Faces Medieval Illness

Los Angeles officials hear the patter of 'tiny feet'

(Newser) - The first clue Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson had that rats were invading City Hall, possibly carrying a potentially deadly disease, was the pitter-patter of little feet. "We had an employee or two mention they heard something in the ceiling," Wesson told the AP Thursday as...

Typhus Outbreak Hits Downtown LA
Typhus Outbreak
Hits Downtown LA

Typhus Outbreak Hits Downtown LA

There have been nine cases of the flea-borne disease in recent months

(Newser) - Health officials are working to get a handle on an outbreak of typhus in downtown Los Angeles. Nine cases of the flea-borne disease were reported between July and September, the Los Angeles Times reports, adding that there are typically about 200 cases reported nationwide each year. Typhus is caused by...

How Polish Docs' 'Cunning' Trick Outsmarted Nazis
Docs Injected 
Fake Typhus to
Outsmart Nazis
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Docs Injected Fake Typhus to Outsmart Nazis

The false positives let prisoners live in quarantine

(Newser) - It all started with a man so desperate to escape forced labor in Nazi Germany in 1941 that he considered cutting off his own arm. Instead, on a whim, his doctor in Poland stuck a needle in his arm, the man tested positive for the oft-deadly typhus, and he was...

Last of Anne Frank's Guardians Dead at 100

Miep Gies kept girl's papers, helped father assemble diary

(Newser) - The last surviving member of the Dutch group that protected famed diarist Anne Frank and her family in Amsterdam during World War II died today at 100. Miep Gies assembled Anne’s papers after she and her family were discovered by the Nazis in 1944 and, because they were Jewish,...

'French Anne Frank' Diaries a Hit
'French Anne Frank' Diaries a Hit

'French Anne Frank' Diaries a Hit

Account of life in Nazi-occupied Paris only now available

(Newser) - Often called France’s Anne Frank, Helene Berr was a young Jewish student living in Nazi-occupied Paris who, like Frank, kept a diary detailing the journey from her privileged life to the reality of her fate. Just published for the first time, the diary has become a literary phenomenon, selling...

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