What diseases did people die from during the civil war?

Question

what is a disease that was common to cause the death of children then.

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Answer 1

Everybody's right about people in general. But you're talking about children. Many children died in childbirth of course, but young ones were taken by diseases we don't even recognize anymore, like whooping cough or diptheria or smallpox, since vaccinations have pretty much wiped them out.

Answer 2

Malaria: The Forgotten Killer.

Malaria played an important role in early American history, especially in the swampy marshland of Northeast Virginia.

In 1781, British General George Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown owing largely to the fact that more than half of some companies of the British fleet were deathly ill with malaria.

Malaria accounted for 20 percent of all hospitalizations during the American Civil War.

Answer 3

Dysentary was the biggest cause of death in the Civil War.

Answer 4

Dysentery was a very common cause of death to children.

There was also scarlet fever, cholera, and tuberculosis (called consumption then.)

Answer 5

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