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There were multiple diseases that affected the soldiers in World War One, diseases such as influenza, typhoid, trench foot, trench fever, malaria and diabetes were present during the war. Trench Foot took three to six months to fully heal and was caused by long-term wet and damp conditions. It is said to be very painful and blackens and kills the surface tissue of the infected area, typically the feet. Another is Trench Fever, symptoms include a high fever, severe headaches and serious back and leg pains. Trench fever was highly contagious due to the number of contact that occurs in the trenches and takes multiple months to heal. Typhoid was one of the worst diseases because the body cannot receive food or water. The two main causes of typhoid were bad hygiene as well as flies. Another disease was influenza which took only three days to kill you after the infection occurs. It had killed over 15 million during the war and the most common symptoms include: a high fever, runny nose, sore throat, muscle pains, headache, coughing, and feeling tired. Malaria had spread within the population as well as the military and infected 412,000 soldiers, causing 20,000 casualties. There was no prevention of this due to the long war and the lack of medicine used to treat malaria. Diabetes was another disease but it had shown up during WWI, which was fifteen years before insulin was discovered. Severe diabetics had short lifetimes and they were under severe diets before their death. Overall, over two million on-field casualties in WWI had been caused by diseases.

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