MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE ABSTRACTS OF UNEVALUATED INFORMATION

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• Publication Date: August 15, 1951

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MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE ABSTRACTS
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UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
CIA/SI 25.21-51
15 August 1951
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2. Typhus and Typhoid Fever Epidemics in Rumania.
Mn increasingly serious typhus and
typhoid fever epidemic broke out among
the technicians and more than 10,000
free workers and forced laborers working
on the construction of the ILenint hydro-
electric powerplant at Stejar-Bicaze
The disease rages primarily, of course, among the overworked
and undernourished political prisoners employed at the con-
struction.
Mccording to dorrespondence from
Bucharest, confirmed by concurring statements of recently
pelled Italian nationals, the-fordedlaborers have been isolated
from the rest of the workers in an attempt to prevent the spread-
ing of the epidemic.",'
ANAIYET'qLCOMMENTs Food or waterborne
typhoid fever and louse-borne typhus fever are endemic in
Rumania. Outbreaks such as these are the result of lack of
immunization and other preventive measures, and of unsanitary
living and working conditions. This report confirms previous
references to the marked distinction between health measures
for free workers and for forced laborers that characterizes
the Soviet orbit. While public health measures are in general
widely applied, the health of forced laborers appears to be
completely neglected. These groups are therefore continuing
epidemic foci,
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