i have 2 do a report on diseases during a the american revolution?

Question

my teacher excepts me 2 find a bunch of stuff about the diseases during the revolutionary war. everyone got stuck with everything else and no computer. plz help!

Answer 1

Nearly nine times as many died from diseases during the American Revolution as did from wounds. Poor diet, inadequate sanitation and sometimes a lack of basic medical care caused such diseases as dysentery, scurvy, typhus, smallpox and others to decimate the ranks.
Scurvy was a major problem for both the British and American navies, while venereal diseases proved to be a particularly vexing problem in New York. Respiratory diseases, scabies and other illnesses left nearly 4,000 colonial troops unable to fight when George Washington’s troops broke camp at Valley Forge in June 1778.

Answer 2

Here you go, a whole list of colonial diseases. From there, just look up the ones that should least likely to make your classmates sick (or maybe most likely, depending on your taste).

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sam/disease.html

Answer 3

Small Pox, Cholera, Scarlet fever to name a few