Typhus is at present no menace to the U.S. But it might conceivably become the dreaded scourge it is in Europe.
The heavy U.S. typhus season was just beginning last week, and the best guess was that 1944 would break all records. The mild U.S. variety of the disease (fever, rash, aches, prostration) was in creasing in Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Florida and North and South Carolina, the total of 3,091 cases being 600 ahead of the same period last year. Last year's total: 4,533. (Some experts thought the real figure would be nearer...
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