The day before he was to be hanged, he swapped his identity with another French prisoner who had died of typhus.

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She died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen camp in March 1945.

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The same thing is true of other well-studied bugs, such as those that cause typhus and plague, and is likely to be true of most bacteria.

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Suffering from diseases including typhus, they were locked inside with too few doctors to care for them and fatty foods their bodies could no longer digest.

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