Title: 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
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865, 19th century