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    Who had a name that sounded like a disease and posthumously gave his name to a family of disease carrying parasites, one of which is thought to have killed him?

    Question #59331. Asked by gmackematix. (Sep 12 05 6:16 PM)


    lanfranco

    		Could this be Howard Taylor Ricketts, after whom the Rickettsia bacteria carried as parasites by fleas, ticks, and lice are named? He died of typhus, which is caused by one of these bacteria.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickettsiae

    Sep 13 05, 5:43 AM
    gmackematix

    		Yay, Frankie! Nothing rickety about the structure of that answer.

    Sep 13 05, 10:47 AM

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