ghetto in Transnistria during World War II are portrayed infected with and dying of epidemic typhus. (1978) In Patrick O'Brian's 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 Barrett's 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 Stephenson's 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 Bacterium-related cutaneous conditions Zoonoses Insect-borne diseases Biological weapons Rodent-carried diseases Typhus