(1956) In Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, the main character contracts epidemic typhus in the winter following the Russian Revolution, while living in Moscow. (1964) In Nacht (novel) by Edgar Hilsenrath, characters imprisoned in a ghetto in Transnistria during World War II are portrayed infected with and dying of epidemic typhus. (1978) In Patrick OBrians novel Desolation Island, an outbreak of "gaol-fever" strikes the crew while sailing aboard the Leopard. (1980–1991) In Maus by Art Spiegelman, Vladek Spiegelman contracts typhus during his imprisonment at the Dachau concentration camp. (1982) There is a typhus epidemic in Chile graphically described in The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
(1996) In Andrea Barretts novella Ship Fever, the characters struggle with a typhus outbreak at the Canadian Grosse Isle Quarantine Station during 1847. (2001) Lynn and Gilbert Morris novel Where Two Seas Met portrays an outbreak of typhus on the island of Bequia in the Grenadines, in 1869. (2004) In Neal Stephensons The System Of The World, a fictionalized Sir Isaac Newton dies of "gaol fever" before being resurrected by Daniel Waterhouse. See also
Globalization and disease
List of epidemics
Weil-Felix test

References
55. ↑ Alice S. Chapman (2006). "Cluster of Sylvatic Epidemic Typhus Cases Associated with Flying Squirrels, 2004 - 2006" MedscapeCME  Epidemic Typhus Associated with Flying Squirrels -- United States
Astasia-abasia refers to the inability to either stand or walk in a normal manner. Astasia refers to the inability to stand upright unassisted. Abasia refers to lack of motor coordination in walking. The term abasia literally means that the base of gait (the lateral distance between the two feet) is inconstant or unmeasurable. When seen in conversion disorder, the gait is bizarre and is not suggestive of a specific organic lesion: often the patient sways wildly and nearly falls, recovering at the last moment. An acquired total inability to stand and walk can be seen in organic neurological diseases, including stroke, Parkinsons disease, damage to the cerebellum, Guillain–Barré syndrome, normal pressure hydrocephalus and many others. In normal pressure hydrocephalus, for example, when the condition remains untreated, the patients gait becomes shortened, with frequent shuffling and falls; eventually standing, sitting, and even rolling over in bed become impossible. This advanced state is referred to as "hydrocephalic astasia-abasia". Phobias
Astasia and/or abasia are  associated with the corresponding fears of walking and/or standing, variously called stasophobia, basophobia, stasiphobia, basiphobia, stasobasophobia, stasibasiphobia, etc., sometimes turning into pathological forms, i.e., phobias. See also
Blocqs disease, an illness named after Paul Oscar Blocq

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