In this blog, I will talk about the main diseases that were contaminating people, also i'll mention the actual reasons these diseases were common, and how the people took care of those illnesses. I will also try to find the reasons they decided to deal with those diseases in the ways that they did. As you can probably imagine the reasons for these things will have to do with the conditions in which the trenches were, and the locations of those trenches.
The first causes for death in the trenches were the main wounds that killed most of the soldiers were the normal war injuries. Like people getting shot in places that would kill them directly. The main causes for the diseases that people got were caused by the bacterias around the trenches since it was soo dirty, and were in tunnels, it was filled of bacterias and litle animals that were definitly not clean. One of the main problems in the trenches were the rats. Apparently some rats could get as big as cats, and at some points they would even eat bodies that were alive, but asleep. The rats started to get big when they would find piles of dead bodies and just eat them. Rats also promoted other diseases because they cary a lot of bacterias.
Since the trenches were soo far from the other places where there was medical technology and pharmacies to help them get medicine that would help the soldiers get better. Also, since one person could have one wound that would contaminate the rest of his body, or the rest of the soldiers, the most common thing was surgery which was just an amputation.
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