Combating an invisible enemy: the American military response to global pandemics

Abstract The present moment is not the first time that America has found itself at war with a pathogen during a time of international conflict. Between crowded barracks at home and trenches abroad, wartime conditions helped enable the spread of influenza in the fall of 1918 during World War I such t...

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Main Authors: Lauren K. Dutton, Peter C. Rhee, Alexander Y. Shin, Richard J. Ehrlichman, Richard J. Shemin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-01-01
Series:Military Medical Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40779-021-00299-3