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Epidemic typhus is a disease spread by lice that spreads especially fast in conditions where people are crowded together tightly (this perfectly describes Bergen-Belsen in March, 1945).

While easily curable with antibiotics (none at Belsen), it is usually fatal without treatment. The patient dies of high fever, toxin from the bacteria in the bloodstream, and the collapse of general bodily systems

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