Trench fever historical perspective

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Overview

It infected the armies in Flanders, France, Poland, Galicia, Italy, Slonika, Macedonia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt in World War I^[1]^[2] (including J.R.R. Tolkien^[3]) and the German army in Russia during World War II.^[2] From 1915-1918 between one-fifth and one-third of all British troops reported ill were caused by Trench Fever while about one-fifth of ill German and Austrian troops had the disease.^[1]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Justina Hamilton Hill (1942). Silent Enemies: The Story of the Diseases of War and Their Control. G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Francis Timoney, William Arthur Hagan (1973). Hagan and Bruner’s Microbiology and Infectious Diseases of Domestic Animals. Cornell University Press.
↑ John Garth (2003). Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth. HarperCollins Publishers.

Template:WikiDoc Sources

[Justina-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Justina Hamilton Hill (1942). Silent Enemies: The Story of the Diseases of War and Their Control. G. P. Putnam’s Sons.

[Hagan-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Francis Timoney, William Arthur Hagan (1973). Hagan and Bruner’s Microbiology and Infectious Diseases of Domestic Animals. Cornell University Press.

[Tolkien-3] John Garth (2003). Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth. HarperCollins Publishers.

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