Typhus is an infectious disease spread by lice, ticks, mites, and rat fleas. The overall case fatality rate for untreated infections is 10 to 40%; however, the mortality rate increases with age. Infections are rarely fatal in children less than 10 years old, but in people over 50 years old the mortality rate can be as high…
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Appealing to Emotion
When you do a search for Holocaust death camps you are greeted with the familiar photos of piles of emaciated dead bodies. These photos are presented in Holocaust documentaries, movies, textbooks, and the like, as a proof of the Nazi atrocities. You even get images of camps that are not claimed to be death camps…