War, killings and devastation in Bosnia have now been joined by typhus. That’s how it starts; a total break down of the social infrastructure, war and chaos give way to epidemics, and help is far away The World Health Organization (WHO) announced last week that – according to information from the field – there is danger of a typhus epidemic […]

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