During the Nazi occupation of Poland, some intellectuals were able to avoid being sent to Nazi concentration camps by volunteering for the potentially deadly job of allowing typhus-infected lice to feed on them. The Lviv Institute for Study of Typhus employed over 4,000 "louse-feeders" — people who strapped wooden boxes containing hundreds of infected lice to their legs for 45 minutes daily to help produce typhus vaccines. — Read the rest
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