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Trench fever historical perspective
Introduction
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Overview
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
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.
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