Of Guns Gems Flashcards
typhus plagued _____ armies
Napoleon’s
Typhoid fever humiliated the ____ Army during the _________ War.
American
Spanish-American
World War I is from _____ to _____
1914 – 1918
WW1 is widely associated with which diseases
Spanish flu
Influenza pandemic
The influenza epidemic that swept the world in ______ killed an estimated 50 million people.
1918
Spanish flu began with WW1
T/F
F
Revolution of medicine during WW1
Red cross
Emergency hospitals
Gauze masks
WW2 is widely associated with which diseases
Typhus
Tuberculosis
Cholera
Revolution of medicine during WW2
Vaccinations
Typhus is rarely fatal
T/F
F
Typhus, a bacterial disease that is spread by ______
body lice
Ww2 ranged from ____ to ____
1939-1945
Major diseases in Nigerian civil war was?
Malnutrition
Cholera
Dysentery
Malaria
Due to the famine during Nigerian civil war ,many resorted to eating ____
It was the regular eating of these
and poor cooking that led to the development of the disease _____.
crabs
Paragonimiasis
Revolution of medicine during the Nigerian civil war
NGOs
Biological warfare, also known as _____ warfare
germ
_____ infected their arrows by dipping them in decomposing bodies or in blood mixed with manure as far back as ___ BC.
Scythian archers
400
______ poisons water wells with human bodies, Tortona, Italy
Emperor Barbarossa
______ catapult bodies of plague victims over the city walls of Caffa, Crimean Peninsula
Mongols
Spanish mix wine with _______ to sell to their ____ foes, Naples, Italy
blood of leprosy patients
French
1763 British distribute blankets from _____ to ______
smallpox patients
native americans
