Diseases:
Soldiers who fought during the trench warfare were there for months, with little health supplies and only a few doctors. So meanwhile, these soldiers were exposed to various diseases like: trench rats, body lice and trench fever, trench foot, dysentery, and shell-shock. By the end of the war, only a few remained and pushed through the diseases, but for others, it was too late.
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Trench rats: Trench rats, were the main reason that many diseases were exposed to the soldiers. The rats were all throughout the trenches because there was a lack of proper waste disposal and unsanitary conditions. These trench rats not only ate the mess, but they also ate the rotting corps of the dead soldiers, so these rats had feats in the trenches.
The soldiers had also caught the rats and ate them just so they wouldn't starve to death, and them eating the rats caused a lot of diseases in their bodies.
The soldiers had also caught the rats and ate them just so they wouldn't starve to death, and them eating the rats caused a lot of diseases in their bodies.
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Trench foot: Trench foot was caused by unsanitary conditions and standing for long hours in wet dirty mud. It was a very painful disease that was a fungal infection. This infection would get so bad that the soldiers were in need for surgical amputation of the limb.
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Body Lice and Trench Fever: Body lice was a huge problem in the trenches because they were infested with it everywhere and this is what caused trench fever. The soldiers had severe pain and high fever that took over there body and it took twelve weeks to recover, and get back in the war. The only found cause to trench fever was body lice.
Casualties:
No one would have predicted the casualties of the trench warfare. There was so much death in every country that the casualties were insane. About 9.7 million soldiers died during the trench warfare, and 21 million soldiers were wounded. The soldiers not only died by being shot at or through gun power, but by the living conditions as well. Many had to fight off the terrible diseases that had attacked them.
Charts:
These are the deaths of the central powers, there was a total of 15,404,477 deaths throughout the four years of war.
These are the death rates for the allies, there was a total of 22,049,927 deaths throughout all the countries of the allies for the whole four years.