European typhus fever, also called “spotted fever” and “ship fever,” is not to be confused with typhoid fever. For generations it was the scourge of armies, and it still flourishes in Poland, Russia ...
Figure 1. Fossilized nits of chewing lice, tightly affixed to feathers of an enantiornithine bird, entombed in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar. (a) Isolated barbs and regularly arranged ...