The explosive spread of disease throughout a population causes panic and despair. The main reason why diseases spread is due to unsanitary lifestyles. Additionally, when a disease appears, it is very difficult to find an immediate cure. A very deadly infectious disease known as typhus spread during the Holocaust. Typhus is caused by rickettsiae and spread by lice and fleas. The main cause of typhus was lack of medicine and unsanitary environment. When prisoners were sent to the ghetto, they had nothing to clean with or had nothing at all in their homes. This caused thousands of people to die a slow and painful death. When typhus broke out in the worst ghettos, it spread very quickly. This not only harmed the prisoners, but also affected all of Germany. When a prisoner came into contact with typhus, the camp administrator would tell him that he was going to take a disinfectant bath, when in reality he was going to die. The prisoners would have the mentality that they were going to take a bath, but instead they would all be put to death. Hitler didn't care about anyone, that's what he wanted to show people. He basically wanted them all to die and if they had the disease, that just gave him one more reason to kill them. Given the poor conditions, it was guaranteed that most of them would contract the disease. Then, contracting the disease guaranteed them death. So basically there was no way out of this mess, they were going to die one way or another. The last time typhus was recorded was by British troops during World War II. They had forty-two cases of typhus in 1942, a year after the Allied forces arrived. Then the next year, there were five hundred and eighty-two cases of typhus... middle of paper... obviously, so everything went wrong. Due to poor services, food, water and sanitation, people began to die from diseases which mainly broke out due to typhus. After the situation deteriorated, they separated the camp by adding another camp a kilometer and a half away. Then, when the situation got worse, they turned the second camp into a temporary hospital and re-education camp. But despite their efforts, typhus continued to spread, killing five hundred people a day. When this information was released to people, it was perceived as a nightmare. A large number of people began to die and people began to burn the bodies of the dead. They had no choice but to burn them. Faced with the number of deaths, the British army had to replace its troops with bulldozers to move the thousands of bodies. After this horror story, many Jews immigrated to Palestine.