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An estimated 380,000 to 520,000 British soldiers contracted trench fever during World War I. As Ceri Gage, a curator at the Museum of Military Medicine in Aldershot, England, told the Biomedical ...
Welcome to “Uranium Fever: Uranium Mining, Culture, Health, and the Environment in the Four Corners Region.”. This digital museum exhibit showcases images and documents from Fort Lewis College’s Center of Southwest Studies’ collections on uranium mining and uranium mill tailings removal. During the post-World War II era, government ...
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Jun 30, 2016 · This Historical Review will outline the 3-year quest to identify the epidemiology and cause of trench fever, an infection that would sap the manpower resources of both sides during World War 1. The discoveries of the mode of transmission and causative organism of trench fever represent triumphs of rigorous clinical investigation over the idle ...
- Gregory M Anstead
- 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30003-2
- 2016
- 2016/08
Epidemic typhus, also known as louse-borne typhus, is a form of typhus so named because the disease often causes epidemics following wars and natural disasters where civil life is disrupted. [4] [5] Epidemic typhus is spread to people through contact with infected body lice, in contrast to endemic typhus which is usually transmitted by fleas.
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Some of the early symptoms of typhus were fever, overall pain, loss of appetite, headache, muscle pain, cough, and restlessness. Later delirium and severe constipation and dehydration occur, which lead to cardiac arrest and death. The disease runs its course in one to three weeks.
America was able to avoid war with Britain during a time when things were heating up over Mexico and the annexation of Texas. The Senate ratified the Oregon Treaty in 1846, and the boundary along the forty-ninth parallel was extended from its previous terminus in the middle of the Rocky Mountain to the Strait of Georgia.
Feb 2, 2022 · 176 pages ; 25 cm Short stories Includes index War fever -- The secret history of World War 3 -- Dream cargoes -- The object of the attack -- Love in a colder climate -- The largest theme park in the world -- Answers to a questionnaire -- The air disaster -- Report on an unidentified space station -- The man who walked on the moon -- The enormous space -- Memories of the space age -- Notes ...
