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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
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] The disease persists among the homeless.[4] Outbreaks have been documented, for example, in Seattle, Washington and Baltimore, Maryland in the United States among injection drug users and in Marseille, France and Burundi.
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.
- ↑ Milonakis, Eleftherios, and Michael A. Forgione. "Trench Fever." EMedicine. 26 June 2006. 11 June 2007 <http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2303.htm>.