You probably got the vaccine for scrub typhus. It can be a thing in SE Asia, especially out in the bush. It’s spread by chiggers, of all things.
I gather Yon means epidemic typhus, which used to be thing during wars and famines. Now it’s rare. It’s spread by body lice in overcrowded conditions. Napoleon’s troops were decimated by it in 1812 (his ill-fated Russian campaign), and it killed many thousands on the Eastern Front in WWI.
Thanks. I never heard it called “scrub typhus” before.
You wrote “it killed many thousands on the Eastern Front in WWI.” My paternal grandfather fought on the Eastern Front and was a Russian POW before he escaped and walked back to Danzig. Fortunately he never caught it.
>>It’s spread by body lice in overcrowded conditions.<<
Like in concentration camps.