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fever. 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
CHRONOLOGY OF THE 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION. NOTE: Entries in italics describe military events that occurred in Europe before the 10th Mountain Division arrived in Italy.
Trench fever (also known as "five-day fever", "quintan fever" (Latin: febris quintana), and "urban trench fever" [1]) is a moderately serious disease transmitted by body lice. It infected armies in Flanders, France, Poland, Galicia, Italy, Macedonia, Mesopotamia, Russia and Egypt in World War I.
- Significant Factors in The Prevalence of Disease on The Western Front
- Epidemic Typhus/Trench Fever
- Diseases Associated with Climatic Conditions and The Hazards of War
- Trench Foot
- Influenza
- Venereal Diseases
- Summary
The majority of the troops of the BEF arriving on the Western Front had led a very simple lifestyle until the outbreak of war. They were accustomed to the basic, but often quite effective, hygiene practices they had practised as a norm of daily life, and these practices provided some basic protection against disease. Nevertheless, almost all had ha...
Lice are the long-feared vectors of epidemic typhus. This disease is caused by an organism - of the genus Rickettsia - which demonstrates characteristics of both bacteria and viruses, that is like viruses it only grows in living cells. The infection produces severe fevers, painful aching joints and body rashes. These often led to a fatal involvemen...
Additionally, the BEF on the Western Front faced, largely unprotected, full exposure to the whole gamut of the continental type climatic conditions. This exposure caused injuries that facilitated several incapacitating diseases, for example Trench Foot (more about which later). And, looming over all, there was the major, constant, physical and psyc...
This was a non-contagious condition that arose from the prolonged immersion of the feet/legs in cold water whilst serving in the trenches. The feet, in effect, became water-logged and chilled. The blood circulation was adversely affected - badly fitting boots and tightly bound puttees also aggravated the problem - and the feet/legs became infected ...
From 1915 onwards, a new strain of influenza began to appear in all of the combatant armies on the Western Front. Incorrectly designated as Spanish Flu, its genesis probably lay in the mutation of avian type influenza from Asia which jumped the species via pigs to arrive in the crowded military base camps of the USA and Europe. In the late summer o...
The dichotomy of the social mores regarding sex of Edwardian society - prostitution was rife, especially in the big cities - meant that a considerable number of the soldiers who fought with the BEF were already infected with one or more of the more common venereal diseases - both gonorrhoea and syphilis being dominant - when the troops were transpo...
The Great War was the third war of the Industrialised Age: the American Civil War (620,000 died) and the Russo-Japanese War (165,000 casualties) preceded it by 53 and 10 years respectively. Both of these earlier wars gave a clear indication of the large numbers of casualties that could occur from the industrialised mass production of the munitions ...
Mar 1, 2010 · From time immemorial, vector-borne diseases have severely reduced the fighting capacity of armies and caused suspension or cancellation of military operations. Since World War I, infectious diseases have no longer been the main causes of morbidity and mortality among soldiers.
- F. Pages, M. Faulde, E. Orlandi-Pradines, P. Parola
- 2010
Mar 28, 2008 · History and Geography. Also known as Wolhynian fever and His-Werner disease, trench fever occurred in Russia, England, France, the Middle East, Italy, Germany, and Austria. It is carried by body lice; hence it follows the pattern of its more deadly relative, epidemic typhus fever, in plaguing armies where hygiene is substandard.
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At the end of 1917, just a year before the end of the war, the War Office officially assigned the name Trench Fever to the disease that had stymied them for over two years. For once the soldiers influenced the War Office rather than vice versa.
