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What ailment was common among soldiers who did not exercise proper hygiene influenza trench foot malnutrition poor eyesight?
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Where was the prison in the south where 13000 captured union soldiers died located?
13,000 Union Soldiers died of disease and malnutrition at the Confederate prison in Andersonville, Georgia
Biggest killer of American soldiers in World War 1?
The biggest killer of the American Soldiers and all the other nations' soldiers was disease, exposure, hunger and the worldwide influenza that killed more people in the war than wounds and fatal blows. I don't remember what they called that influenza that killed millions around the world but it wiped out a lot of the troops and the European civilian's. It hit all the continents from what I understand.
How did the movement of soldiers during World War 1 contribute to the global influenza flu pandemic of 1918 to 1919 which killed millions of people?
Answer this question… Soldiers infected in one country carried the infection to other countries.
What was the major epidemic that swept the country after soldiers returned from ww1?
Spanish Influenza. It actually started before the war ended. The pandemic started around June 1918 and the war ended Nov 1918. By the time soldiers returned home, the flu had already killed millions.
How did the weather at Valley Forge affect the troops?
During the winter in Valley Forge, food and supplies were scarce. A majority of the soldiers had a lack of, or improper, clothing for the winter weather. When spring arrived, bringing warmer weather, disease struck the army. Influenza, typhus, typhoid, and dysentery wiped out two-thirds of the soldiers.
More soldiers died from malnutrition and what than from bullets?
Disease
What is a military exercise for?
To train soldiers.
Where was the prison in the south where 13000 captured union soldiers died located?
13,000 Union Soldiers died of disease and malnutrition at the Confederate prison in Andersonville, Georgia
How did the influenza pandemic make the transition from war to peace more difficult after world war 1?
Of the United States soldiers who died in Europe, half of them fell to the influenza virus and not to the enemy. An estimated 43,000 servicemen who were mobilized for WWI died of influenza.
How many soldiers brought back the influenza virus?
Your question needs to tell which war you're asking about.
Biggest killer of American soldiers in World War 1?
The biggest killer of the American Soldiers and all the other nations' soldiers was disease, exposure, hunger and the worldwide influenza that killed more people in the war than wounds and fatal blows. I don't remember what they called that influenza that killed millions around the world but it wiped out a lot of the troops and the European civilian's. It hit all the continents from what I understand.
How did the great global influenza pandemic of 1918 help the end of world war 1?
it made most of the soldiers sick
Name an exercise a drill sergeant makes his soldiers do?
PushupsSitupsChinupsRunjumping jacksPush ups
How did the movement of soldiers during World War 1 contribute to the global influenza flu pandemic of 1918 to 1919 which killed millions of people?
Answer this question… Soldiers infected in one country carried the infection to other countries.
Why did soldiers die in prisoner war camps?
Often through malnutrition and infectious diseases, Russian soldiers in German camps - and vice versa - and Allied soldiers in Japanese camps much more so than British and American soldiers in German camps. German prisoners of war were often shipped to the US and put to work there on farms and in factories.
Name a exercise a drill sargent makes his soldiers do?
Pushups, running and jumping jacks.
What time did the spanish flu epidemic occur?
The Spanish inlfuenza was an especially virulent virus that spread across the world in 1918, killing many millions of people. It was likely carried around the globe by soldiers returning from World War I (1914-1918). Both soldiers and civilians may have been made more susceptible by malnutrition -- there were famines in many of the countries where the war was waged. As many as 500 million people became infected, and between 50 and 100 million died.
