does anyone know where i can find stats on the diseases, for example how many people died in WW1 from a certain disease!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Lice caused Trench Fever, a particularly painful disease that began suddenly with severe pain followed by high fever!. Recovery - away from the trenches - took up to twelve weeks!. Lice were not actually identified as the culprit of Trench Fever until 1918!. Many men chose to shave their heads entirely to avoid another prevalent scourge: nits!. Trench Foot was another medical condition peculiar to trench life!. It was a fungal infection of the feet caused by cold, wet and unsanitary trench conditions!. It could turn gangrenous and result in amputation!. Trench Foot was more of a problem at the start of trench warfare; as conditions improved in 1915 it rapidly faded, although a trickle of cases continued throughout the war!. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351!. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The most common health issues for soldiers and the general population of Europe were different but many ailments did strike all people!. One very important health crisis from the latter part of World War I was the influenza outbreak of 1917 and beyond!. It took military and civilian lives alike!. The transport of troops and the huge migration of people all over the world, but especially in and out of Europe, saw tens of millions of people die from the Spanish flu!. On the battlefield other diseases and illnesses were common!. Cholera, typhoid and dysentry could be found throughout Europe during the Great War!. But the most common cause of death after battle injuries was likely infection!. The conditions of war were appalling!. Rats could be found everywhere, especially in the coastal areas of Italy, England, France and Germany!. Body lice were epidemic; venereal diseases (syphillus and gonorreha being prevelant) were common; and malaria was also easily contracted in the warmer southern climes!. Another terrible ailment was trenchfoot which is like athlete's foot only far worse!. Some soldiers' feet all but rotted off their bodies!. The common cold and flu were likely always present!. Often both soldiers and civilians lacked the basics to remain healthy !. !. !. good food, clean living conditions, restful sleeps!. I think few Europeans living in the war zone, or the troops from all over the world fighting there, enjoyed any of the basics to sustain good health!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Unsanitary conditions in the trenches led to many diseases!. Lice borne typhus was the worst disease until the outbreak of the Spanish influenza pandemic in 1918!. The Spanish flu killed more people than the war itself!. A good reference to the effects of the Spanish flu in comparision to other wartime diseases is the book "The Great Influenza"!.Www@QuestionHome@Com 'Trench Fever' (http://www!.firstworldwar!.com/atoz/trench!.!.!. Influenza (there was a "Pandemic" in 1918) --One estimate for number of disease-related deaths in Greek Army: 15,000!.!.!.and in Bulgarian Army: 24,497!.!.!.Ottoman Army: 466,759 deaths due to disease!.!.!.UK Army: 240,000 Armenian stats: http://www!.vlib!.us/medical/stats/stats!.h!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Germs, I mean Germans! Wiped out a lot of people!.Www@QuestionHome@Com dysentery, trench foot, trench fever, lice, gangrene etc!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |