In the early months of World War I, British Pvt. Ernest Cable was a member of the 2nd Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment. Records show that in early 1915, his regiment was fighting in the trenches ...
Research into a bacterial sample from World War I has revealed secrets of the dysentery-causing strain's success and uncovered the story of the soldier behind the sample. A bacterial sample from a ...
A new analysis of ancient faeces taken from two Jerusalem latrines dating back to the biblical Kingdom of Judah has uncovered traces of a single-celled microorganism Giardia duodenalis – a common ...
A doctoral thesis in Sweden shows that dysentery alone accounted for a whopping 90 percent of all deaths in that Nordic country between 1750 and 1900. A doctoral thesis in Sweden shows that dysentery ...
In the 1700s-1800s, dysentery was a disease causing many deaths. In fact, in some areas in Sweden 90 percent of all deaths were due to dysentery during the worst outbreaks. A new doctoral thesis in ...
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