war and plagues

Question 1

what has killed more soldiers? war or disease?

Answer 1

infectious disease. biggest killer in WW1 was influenza

Question 2

What happened with Florence Nightengale and the Crimean War?

Answer 2

Florence was mother of modern nursing. developed the sanitary commission for soldiers and saw significant reduction in deaths.

Question 3

What happened in the Napoleonic Wars?

Answer 3

500,000 left paris, 18% reached moscow.

TYPHUS.

hot dry summer = lack of water, contaminated Polish Wells. food scarcity among supply line, fear of attack = crowding. dysentery, enteric fevers = epidemic.

Question 4

what is typhus?

Answer 4

spread through infected body lice, bacteria Rickettsia prowasekii. rat fleas, human body louse. (pedicures humanus corporis) lice feed on blood of sick individuals, move to other body, excrete bacteria. when human itches bite, bacteria gets in.
symptoms: sudden fever, headaches, chills and rash
rare today, but occurs with overcrowding and poor sanitation (like in military camps)
endemic typhus is deadliest form, 30-70% fatality rate

Question 5

What was Agent Orange?

Answer 5

used in vietnam war to kill the jungle greenery

destroyed agricultural fields and forests. = malnutrition and starvation
bombed out villages = 2.4 million homeless
fight to refugee camps and urban slums
bamboo thickets grew in place, which are ideal for rat breeding, which carried y.pestis
bubonic plague epidemic, and also to this day see birth defects