Typhus was a horrible disease. In the trenches, epidemic typhus caused a fatalit

Typhus was a horrible disease. In the trenches, epidemic typhus caused a fatalit

Typhus was a horrible disease. In the trenches, epidemic typhus caused a fatality rate between 10 and 40% depending on the outbreak, despite treatment (since antibiotics were not around yet). In WWI and WWII, millions of deaths, most civilian, occurred because of typhus outbreaks.