Mosquito soldiers

Description:

Of the 620,000 soldiers who perished during the American Civil War, the overwhelming majority died not from gunshot wounds or saber cuts, but from disease. In this ground-breaking medical history, Andrew McIlwaine Bell explores the impact of two terrifying mosquito-borne maladies--malaria and yellow fever--on the major political and military events of the 1860s, revealing how deadly microorganisms carried by a tiny insect helped shape the course of the Civil War.

subjects: Yellow fever,  Mosquitoes as carriers of disease,  Diseases,  Malaria,  Health aspects,  Soldiers,  History,  Mosquitoes,  United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, health aspects,  American Civil War,  Culicidae,  Insect Vectors,  Military Personnel

Places: United States,  Confederate States of America

Times: Civil War, 1861-1865,  19th century