Typhus vaccine
Name/Title
Typhus vaccineDescription
During WWII typhus took the lives of many German troops so the Nazis were desperate to find a vaccine, It so happened that a prisoner in their Dachau concentration camp was one of the world's leading immunologists, Rudolph Weigl. They charged him with the task of creating a vaccine to protect German troops from Typhus which he worked hard to do while recruiting many fellow prisoners who might otherwise have been executed. He knew, however, that the vaccine he gave them was totally ineffective.Use
used to prevent typhusCategory
pharmaceutical