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Sasha Latypova's avatar

likely typhoid (bacterial illness), which is due to the horse manure covering the streets and getting into water supply. There was also a typhoid vax (very bad one) pushed at the time and probably cause disease enhancement especially in younger people.

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nymusicdaily's avatar

Plus Rockefelller meningitis vax administered to US soldiers at Ft. Riley, Kansas. Plus bacterial pneumonia in the trenches.

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mimi's avatar

I don't know about typhoid vax but I think the doctors at the time would have recognized typhoid. They were seeing something that they knew was not typhoid.

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