Despite a stable incidence in the US military, between the Civil War (1861–65) and the Spanish–American War (1898), measles mortality dropped from 2∙0 to 0∙32 cases per 1000 …

Measles was a highly lethal infectious disease during the US Civil War killing 4246 Union soldiers with countless others dying within the Confederacy.

The major childhood diseases, measles, mumps, and chicken pox, could sweep through a camp. More serious diseases such as meningitis and pneumonia were a constant threat. Camp …

Figure 3: Measles mortality in soldiers of the Australian Imperial Force 1914–1918 of which 53/103 occurred in Australia before deployment during World War I.

Nov 26, 2013 · Searching for insights regarding measles mortality rates, we reviewed historical records of measles epidemics on the Polynesian island of Rotuma (in 1911), in Boer War …

The progressive reduction of morbidity and mortality was confirmed in WWII when over 300,000 admissions to hospitals were registered for measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella , but a …

From the standpoint of noneffectiveness, German measles was a disease of someimportance to the Army during the World War. Based on the comparative number ofdays lost, it stood forty …

Mar 10, 2021 · Measles killed at a higher percentage rate than whooping cough and scarlet fever, two other "childhood" diseases that were commonly viewed as more dangerous than measles.

Oct 18, 2018 · And one of the biggest disease challenges for medical officers during the war years was not common camp infections like measles or mumps, but sexually transmitted …

Feb 21, 2018 · Sauerkraut was renamed “liberty cabbage” and German measles became known as “liberty measles.” As Kirschbaum recounts in Burning Beethoven, in the late years of the …