Louse-feeder
id:
louse-feeder-258-7184113
title:
Louse-feeder
text:
A louse-feeder was a job in interwar and Nazi-occupied Poland, at the Lviv Institute for Study of Typhus and Virology and the associated Institute in Kraków, Poland. Louse-feeders were human sources of blood for lice infected with typhus, which were then used to research possible vaccines against the disease. Research into a typhus vaccine was started in 1920 by parasitologist Rudolf Weigl. Weigl and his wife Zofia Weigl were some of the earliest lice feeders. During the Nazi occupation of the c
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Human fed to typhus-infected lice
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louse-feeder
date created:
date modified:
2023-10-27T18:50:34Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q5441224","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5441224"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
14