In 1880 Karl Joseph Eberth described a bacillus that he suspected was the cause of typhoid. The bacillus that causes typhoid fever goes by the scientific name of Salmonella enterica enterica, serovar Typhi.Many men died in the US Civil War due to typhoid fever. See the link below for what this disease can cause:
Before the Civil War, more than 20 percent of people contracted Typhoid fever. During the worst of the outbreaks, between 12 and 16 percent of those afflicted died from the disease.
over 2 thousand
The two main illness was Smallpox or Yellow Fever.
British bacteriologist Edward Wright discovered the first typhoid vaccine in 1896. That time more soldiers used to die of typhoid than war. This discovery saved millions of lives.
yes
"War Fever" is a condition where the common man all of a sudden pulls his head out of his rut and is suddenly rabidly pro-war.
There were several illnesses which claimed lives during the Civil War. Some of those illnesses were dysentery, measles, typhoid, and pneumonia.
The ambulance was not discovered. It was created during the civil war.
I am not going to swear by this answer, but considering the limited choices of drugs available during the Second World War, and also since I wrote my college thesis on the Sulfonamides, I am going to guess that the Sulfa drugs, particularly Sulfanilimide, were the weapon of choice against the miserably infectious salmonella typhi bacteria.
Measles, mumps, small pox, dysentry, typhoid, malaria
Anne Frank died from typhus, a disease caused by bacteria transmitted through lice. She contracted typhus while in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during World War II.