(Dysentery is considered diarrhea with blood ... 30,714 cases of scurvy were recorded. Civil War physicians labored with inadequate knowledge and therapies to deal with the largest number of ...

Dysentery temporarily incapacitated almost 2,000,000 men in the Civil War. Since dysentery organisms dwell in contaminated food and water, the disease can be prevented, as it was in World War I ...

Dysentery was a bigger problem on Civil War battlefields. Now: Dysentery is still a major threat to the developing world. Not only is there no effective vaccine; recent strains are increasingly ...

(Dysentery is considered diarrhea with blood ... 30,714 cases of scurvy were recorded. Civil War physicians labored with inadequate knowledge and therapies to deal with the largest number of ...