The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl

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Everybody needs a good laugh, and here it is.   

http://www.npr.org/2014/07/22/333734201/how-scientists-created-a-typhus-vaccine-in-a-fantastic-laboratory

Weigl's lab in Lviv, Poland, sheltered Polish intellectuals and resistance fighters from the Nazis by employing them as lice feeders, meaning the volunteers allowed hundreds or thousands of lice — some infected with typhus, some not — to suck their blood. The lice were put in tiny cages that were attached to people's legs. To avoid catching the illness themselves, these human volunteers had to be clean, have healthy skin and be able to resist scratching.

"All the intellectual life basically migrated to Weigl's laboratory," Allen says. "There were ... tables full of mathematicians who would be doing their work as mathematicians while lice fed on their blood." 

[Michael K.]

Alternative titles above story:

Swindler's Liced?

                Or

Jewish Blood in Every Nazi?

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