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Originally Posted by Jens Nordlunde
Rivkin, I don’t know where you read about the diseases, but it is true that it must have been a great problem for them.
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If I recall, one of the biggest battlefield killers through WW1 was pneumonia… until penicillin was invented... due to poor living conditions and complications due to wounds.
Here is a site I found that backs up my bad memory...
http://www.amsus.org/MilitaryMedicine/MMabstr.htm
"History reveals a tremendous impact of respiratory pathogens on the U.S. military, dating back to the time of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, during which 90% of casualties were for nonbattle injury, including several respiratory illnesses such as measles, whooping cough, and complicated pneumonia."
Sometimes a military life is just no fun.