David Shasha

We report 410 cases of FB-TBE, most from a region in central and eastern Europe stretching from Croatia in the south to Poland and Germany in the north and an anecdotal report of 5 cases in Russia (6). This region represents an FB-TBE triangle (Figure 1, panel A). Most cases were reported during the warmer months of April–August and were associated with ingestion of unpasteurized dairy products from goats.

The late Elie Wiesel was an immensely complicated figure who helped raise public awareness of the Holocaust, but who also became consumed by his own celebrity and the immense power he wielded in the world. It is hard not to compare the careers of Wiesel and the Italian-Sephardi Primo Levi who both survived the hell of Auschwitz, but who took very different paths to express their witness.