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Diseases during WW1
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Diabetes
Diseases During WW1
Citations
- started world war one, 15 years before treatment, insulin, was discovered
- soldiers forced to live on strict diets because of this
- severe diabetes had a short lifetime
https://amandalloyd.weebly.com/diseases.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29541235
http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbitten/2014/11/10/parasites-and-diseases-in-the-trenches-of-world-war-i/
Izabel Fein
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/25403864
Influenza
Typhoid
- Once you catch this disease, the body shuts down and will no longer accept food nor water.
- Bacteria named "Salmonella Typhi" enters body through mouth by spread of contaminated food and water
- First enters into bloodstream from 24-72 hours
- symptoms: headache, aching, loss of appetite, diarrhea, nosebleeds, constipation
- 10-14 incubation period
- possible treatments were antibiotics
- does not kill everyone it comes in contact with, killed estimate 20-50 million victims
- left soldiers unable to fight for significant amount of time
- effected people 20-40 of age
- symptoms include fever, flushing, sore throats, loss of appetite, and blood poisoning
- due to unsanitary environment it spreads alarmingly fast, takes 3 days to kill once infected
- took place 1918-1919
- treatments not very successful, however went away 1920
Trench Foot
Trench Fever
Why is This Significant?
- comes from the reference to trench warfare which was well associated with world war one
- caused by exposure to unsanitary, moist conditions
- takes up from 3-6 months to fully recover
- a problem for soldiers because it postponed them from partaking in war.
- Diseases during this era (1914-1919) were significant to the U.S. involvement because little medication and medical knowledge was known
- caused by lice, everyone had body lice
- symptoms included high fever, rash, migraines, and joint pain
- not a severe illness, most recover within 2 months
- treated with medicine named chlortetracycline for permanent relief of symptoms, still carry disease
- 800,000 soldiers infected
- was sent away from trenches to recover, highly contagious
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