B.This act of scientific recklessness immortalized him and illustrates the high mor- tality associated with this disease if untreated, so it is recom- mended that B. bacilliformis infections should be treated with chloramphenicol or ciprofloxacin.The link between verruga peruana skin lesions and Oroya fever was demonstrated by a medical student, Carrion, who infected himself with aspirates from the skin lesions and died of Oroya fever.