I’m in France for ten days with my history-teacher husband. On the itinerary are many places we’re both eager to see, including Lyon, some chateaux in the Loire Valley, the Bayeux tapestry, and the beaches and battle sites of Normandy.… Read More
The strain of bacteria that causes epidemic typhus is called Rickettsia prowazeki, named after the scientists who identified it and its mode of transmission, Howard Taylor Ricketts (1871 – 1910) and Stanislaus Josef Mathias von Prowazek (1875 – 1915). Both men died of typhus.