Nazi papers report today that typhus has broken out among the Jews interned in the Zvornik concentration camp in Yugoslavia and also in the Jewish quarters of the Hungarian towns of Gyor-Raab and Hodmozo-Vassrhely. Local authorities in the two Hungarian townships have isolated the areas where typhus has been found and the Jewish communities are hampered in their efforts to combat the epidemic by the scarcity of food and medicine.
The Hungarian Minister of the Interior has admitted that a typhus epidemic in Carpatho-Russia has assumed alarming proportions. He mentioned particularly the town of Koercesmezce where almost the entire Jewish population has contracted the diseases.
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