I live in Connecticut, also known as the “Nutmeg State.” It finally occurred to me to look into how our state earned this moniker. It turns out the history of nutmeg is fraught with drama and horror. And what does… Read More
The strain of bacteria that causes epidemic typhus is called Rickettsia prowazeki, named after the scientists who identified it and its mode of transmission, Howard Taylor Ricketts (1871 – 1910) and Stanislaus Josef Mathias von Prowazek (1875 – 1915). Both men died of typhus.