A. That depends on the medical care given. If the care is good, the mortality is zero, and if they have no medical care at all, then a lot of them die.
Q. Sixty to eighty percent would probably die if they were not treated. Is that right?
A. Beri-beri lasts for many, many months before a person dies, and usually one does not die of beri-beri in sixty days—that would be a severe case.
Q. How many people did Strong use in his beri-beri experiments? Is twenty-nine all you know about?
A. So far as I know from the literature, the number was twenty-nine.
Q. Well, it says in the literature that he used only twenty-nine. Is that right?
A. So far as I know, yes.
Q. And one of those died?
A. According to what the literature says, one of them died.
Q. What is the mortality in typhus?