Typhus quarantine.

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Typhus quarantine.

Quarantine against typhus was enforced vigorously in the ghetto, victims and contacts being locked into their apartments. (Courtesy Yad Vashem 27-C-07)

From Charles G. Roland, Courage Under Siege: Disease, Starvation and Death in the Warsaw Ghetto.
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