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Dysentery was the most common disease on the First Fleet, caused by the unsanitary conditions. Fevers were common. Cholera and typhoid were also diseases experienced by many, and there was also some venereal disease, as the soldiers quite happily took the women convicts for their own use whenever they wanted.
Of the 2,999 people who died because of the attacks on 9/11, 55 were listed as military personnel at the Pentagon. No sailors were listed as active sailors but may have been sailors acting in a different capacity.
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Shanghai was one place that sailors were taken to, many from San Francisco.
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1,566 people suffer from addisons disease. This information can be really useful if you want to find out about life expectanies of different people x
Sailors. Many long trips across the ocean left them deficient in vitamin C. Later sailors ate Limes on the ships for their vitamin C. Sailors were then known as Limeys.
small pox and Contagious Disease :)
Over 1 million a year
Studies have estimated that as many as one-third of Americans have suffered from sleep disorders, which may be psychological in origin and related to anxiety, stress and lifestyle.
Obesity ... which predisposes individuals to diabetes, sleep apnea, heart disease, degenerative joint disease and many others.
About 100,00 people in the United States suffer from this disease
To kill mice and rats which ate the sailors' food and potentially carried disease.
While many women with endometriosis suffer debilitating symptoms, others have the disease without knowing it.
Heartworm would be considered a dreadful disease. It is entirely preventable with medication, yet many animals still suffer needlessly. That is what makes it dreadful.
Dysentery was the most common disease on the First Fleet, caused by the unsanitary conditions. Fevers were common. Cholera and typhoid were also diseases experienced by many, and there was also some venereal disease, as the soldiers quite happily took the women convicts for their own use whenever they wanted.