Trench fever - Google Search (original) (raw)

Trench fever

Disease

Trench fever is a moderately serious disease transmitted by body lice. It infected armies in Flanders, France, Poland, Galicia, Italy, Macedonia, Mesopotamia, Russia and Egypt in World War I. Three noted cases during WWI were the authors J. R. R.... Wikipedia

Other names: Wolhynia fever, shin bone fever, Meuse fever, His disease, and His–Werner disease