Lviv Institute for Typhus and Virus Research
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Lviv Institute for Typhus and Virus Research
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The Institute for Typhus and Virus Research was a scientific research centre founded in the city of Lwów, now known as Lviv. Between 1920 and 1939, it was part of Jan Kazimierz University's Biology Department. Research into a typhus vaccine was started in 1920 by parasitologist Rudolf Weigl. Weigl developed the first widely-used typhus vaccine by using human louse-feeders. After the Nazi invasion of Poland and subsequent German occupation, the Institute became a Nazi laboratory tasked with incre
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Research centre active in World War Era Poland
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2023-09-27T22:12:44Z
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