This image creates a starting point for typhus fever because it is a simple image in the sense that it doesn’t portray any real human being, say, one with the typhus fever, but it shows the drastic effect of lice and how it leads to typhus and eventually death. According to the “Typhus Fever On The Eastern Front In World War I”, “The small Balkan country had just finished a war with Turkey, the third war that Serbs had fought in two years. Munitions and war material was scarce” (Tschanz, 1). The Serbian army were left using remaining materials and leftover aid to fight this current battle creating a harsh situation due to the lack of supplies from previous wars. Although one may wonder why becoming a refugee and the conditions of soldiers pertains to the image, it is because of how lice was very common in certain conditions that it lead to it spreading in its growth areas. According to Typhus Fever On The Eastern Front In World War I, “This epidemiologic fact is because the lice that carry typhus fever are common in large aggregations of persons who do not bathe or change clothes with any regularity and are forced by circumstances to live in close quarter” (Tschanz 1). With soldiers left in low supplies, the effects of war, and not having any facilities to sleep or clean up, it created unsanitary conditions where negative