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Man, Mites, and Medicine by John Harrison of the Institute for
Medical Research. Kuala Lumpur
At the time of the Burma Campaign scrub typhus was a disease for which there was no treatment, but now it and other tropical diseases can be fought with antibiotics. However, final victory ovec any disease is not merely the finding of a cure but the effective control and prevention of it, and here certain difficulties may arise; in the case of scrub typhus, for instance, getting rid of rats (which act as reservoirs for the disease) does not diminish but rather augments its incidence in man.