Posted on 11/30/2022 12:38:10 PM PST by Dr. Thorne
Several messages that all just flew into or out of my box: Just now from a friend traveling in Netherlands, “In last couple weeks I’ve stayed in two different nice hotels in the Netherlands. Haven’t had heat in either.”
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Yikes, Typhus. I just checked WebMD to see what antibiotics treat it — doxycycline seems to be the frontline recommendation. But I also saw azithromycin, ciprofloxacin, and ceftriaxone mentioned in other articles.
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I like Michael Yon, but typhus and cholera in Holland? Um, why? Why would there be overcrowding and body lice? And why dirty water and cholera? I can understand people dying of flu and pneumonia, etc., in the cold, but typhus and cholera?
Okay, this was back in the 1970s, but still. I was a young girl and my family was travelling in Holland. There was no heat in the hotel room where we stayed in Leiden. My mother politely complained about it, thinking there was something wrong with the heat. Some guy from the hotel (manager?) knocked on the door, my mother answered, and he said in English “Madam, for sixty guilders, you don’t get heat”, clicked his heels together, made a little bow, turned and left. It became a family joke.
My school in Switzerland was barely heated at all and we dressed warmly. On Saturdays (yes, school on Saturdays), the windows were often open, even if it was snowing. (Saturday night baths were the custom, so on Saturdays ...).
I’ve no doubt they’re cutting back on heat, and this will be a cruel winter for them, but typhus and cholera???
Sounds good, but I would need some prof of safety and privacy.
When I got my first overseas assignments in 1976, I was required to get a huge battery of inoculations including typhus, typhoid, yellow fever, smallpox, and several others I’ve forgotten. I was in some really remote jungle locations in Asia and South America and fortunately didn’t get sick...until I got Hep A in Durango, Mexico at the very end of my overseas stint. At that time, there was no Hep A vaccine.
You probably got the vaccine for scrub typhus. It can be a thing in SE Asia, especially out in the bush. It’s spread by chiggers, of all things.
I gather Yon means epidemic typhus, which used to be thing during wars and famines. Now it’s rare. It’s spread by body lice in overcrowded conditions. Napoleon’s troops were decimated by it in 1812 (his ill-fated Russian campaign), and it killed many thousands on the Eastern Front in WWI.
Thanks. I never heard it called “scrub typhus” before.
You wrote “it killed many thousands on the Eastern Front in WWI.” My paternal grandfather fought on the Eastern Front and was a Russian POW before he escaped and walked back to Danzig. Fortunately he never caught it.
Nothing to do with Ukraine but with Biden who wants to destroy the energy industry. Sheesh folks, think.
Europe obviously needs more unvetted illegal aliens from Africa and the Middle East to bring their diverse ways and hygiene with them.
Typhus and cholera were prevalent in medeval winters where heating was curtailed.Could it be that typhus and cholera organisms are attracted to the only heat source available in winter — human body heat?
If there was no heat, how did they prepare the food?
Europe prefers Biden over Trump. Voila the result. America, I hope you’re learning your lesson and make the right choice.
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>>Why would there be overcrowding and body lice?<<
Lice need warmth too. Only source available is the human body. Concentration camp survivors were de-liced by Allies before set free.
America pay attention to what stolen elections can bring. This winter, check your armpits for lice. Rub them with rubbing alcohol (isopropenol) and don’t strike matches during the process. Shave off the hair on your head.
They are two different organisms. Scrub typhus is caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi. It’s an Asian thing. But whoops! I was wrong. There is no vaccine for it.
Epidemic typhus (the type that killed soldiers in WWI) is caused by Rickettsia prowazekii. Hmm. No vaccine for it either.
There’s a third type: murine typhus, caused by Rickettsia typhi, spread by fleas. No vaccine for it, either.
I worried about murine typhus once in SE Asia. I lived in a stilt house over the lagoon and was troubled by big wharf rats. They mostly stayed in the attic during daylight, but after dark... Huge rats in your bed is not exactly pleasant. And they do bite. I got rat bite fever :(. It was way worse than the resistant P. falciparum malaria I had before that.
Anyway, someone suggested I get rat poison from Thailand next chance I got. I thought about it, but then I pictured all the wharf rats occupying all the surrounding houses and all the fishing/smuggling boats anchored close by, and pictured them swarming in their thousands to partake of the yummy poisoned bait, expiring in a great heap in my attic, and then zillions of typhus-bearing fleas leaving their cold bodies for my warm one. So I decided to get a baby python instead. Rats run away from python odor.
Maybe you were given typhoid vaccine? I had to get it before going to SE Asia. I dreaded it because the typhoid shot I got as a schoolgirl made me deathly ill. I told the doc about that, so he gave me the oral vaccine and it did not make me sick.
I’m so glad your grandfather did not get typhus, too! My paternal grandfather fought on the Western front in WWI. He was mustard gassed by the Germans, but survived. He never fully recovered, though, and died early when my Dad was just a boy. I wish I could have known him.
Yes, but are the Dutch destined for concentration camps this winter? Why would they get lice just because their homes are under-heated?
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