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Previous Volume 332:463-464 February 16, 1995 Number 7 Next

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To those unfamiliar with the disease the man who has never been in the trenches cannot be suffering from trench fever, and for this reason the spread of the disease to new districts, and among those unfamiliar with its symptoms, will go unrecognised. . . . That trench fever might come amongst us is no idle supposition.

— William Byam¹

Although trench fever has probably been a part of human life for more than a thousand years, it was not until World War I that the disease came under intense scrutiny. In that war it afflicted approximately 1 million soldiers, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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