What type of diseases where in the civil war?

Question

What type of diseases where in the civil war?

Answer 1

Smallpox, (typhus?), yellow fever, swamp fever

Answer 2

Smallpox

Diptheria

Whooping cough

Plague

Measles

Rubella (German Measles)

Chickenpox

Syphilis

Typhus

Tetanus (Lockjaw)

Cholera

Dysentery (We still battle that one)

An important one that the others have not mentioned is gangrene.

Gangrene is still around, but is much more rare and is usually caught before it does any real danger. The American Civil War was horribly bloody. Many injuries led to gangrene infection and body parts were routinely cut off as a result. Even then, many people still died of it.

Answer 3

ALOT THAT OTHER GIRL ANSWEARED 4 U

Answer 4

i think they had alot of whooping cough and starvation and boo boos on the feet

Answer 5

Aphonia (Laryngitis)

Brain Fever (meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal ~ aka cerebrospinal fever, cerebrospinal meningitis, epidemic meningitis)  

Bronchitis

Chronic Diarrhoea (Diarrhea ~ symptom of Dysentery which killed the largest number of men on both sides ~ aka "The Tennessee Trots,” “The Virginia Quick Steps," etc.)

Disease

Erysipelas (Contagious skin disease, due to Streptococci with vesicular and bulbous lesions)

Fever

General Debility

Malaria

Measles

Pneumonia (Lung infection or inflammation)

Typhoid fever (A gastrointestinal condition caused by a bacterial infection, usually as a form of food poisoning. Typhoid fever is unrelated to the similarly named typhus, a tick-borne infection.)

Typhoid Pneumonia

Typhus (Infectious fever characterized high fever, headache, and dizziness. A general name for various arthropod-borne rickettsial infections. Rickettsia: Parasitic microbes usually spread by insect bites.)

Variola (Smallpox)

Wounds

Yellow Fever (Yellow fever is a mosquito-borne viral disease. Illness ranges in severity from an influenza-like syndrome to severe hepatitis and hemorrhagic fever.)