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How do you contract trench foot?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

You contract trench foot by having your feet in a body of water for over 24 hrs. Soldiers often got this infection in the trenches and when it froze the molecules of water in the foots cells would expand thus making the skin explode.

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