title: Hermann Mooser, Typhus, Warsaw 1941.
abstract: Hermann Mooser (1891-1971), a Swiss rickettsiologist, sent his friend Peyton Rous (1879-1970) of the Rockefeller Institute (New York) a telegram on November 3, 1941, asking for financial help for the manufacture of typhus vaccine in Zurich for the Warsaw Ghetto. His explanatory letter from November 4 reached Rous too late to have any influence on the negative decision (by the Rockefeller Foundation and the American Red Cross) in this matter. Contrary to Weindling's affirmation Mooser was neither in Warsaw in 1941, nor was he a member of the Swiss Sanitary Missions to the eastern front.
authors.affiliation: Jean.Lindenmann@access.unizh.ch
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lindenmann
mesh_terms: D005653:Fund Raising / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D028683:National Socialism / Q000266:history*; D009518:New York; D011044:Poland; D012011:Red Cross / Q000266:history*; D012290:Rickettsial Vaccines / Q000266:history*; D013557:Switzerland; D014438:Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne / Q000266:history*
chemical_list: D012290:Rickettsial Vaccines; C028280:typhus vaccine