Trench Fever In Ww1

headache, dizziness, back ache, and a peculiar pain and stiffness in the legs, particularly the shins.” This demonstrates how having this disease caused the pain to be caused all over the soldier’s body, making him unable to fight. Additionally, not only was the disease painful but it also spread easily. The soldiers were always fearful of getting it because they could get it any day and any time of the day without knowing it. It was easily spread throughout the soldiers because it was very contagious and the carriers of the disease and the ones that started were lice. The trenches were the perfect place for trench fever to flourish, “Death was always imminent from artillery fire, but just as threatening was illness from rat bites, bad food, …show more content…
The fear of not knowing when they’ll get gassed or attacked by the enemy. The anxiety of not knowing where the disease might lie in hiding, waiting to attack and plunge its’ victims into the depth of suffering and pain. The fear of not knowing if they are safe or not. The anxiety and fear were never ending, “Each man lays hold of his things and looks again every minute to reassure himself that they are still there.” The soldiers knew that any one of them could die at any moment and not be able to go back to their family or not be able to keep fighting for the country they love. The soldiers knowing that were destroyed emotionally. The soldiers would lose self confidence and would probably fall into depression knowing the sad truth, that there was a slight chance of survival or that to survive, they had to sacrifice many things and do anything they could to survive. However, even if the soldiers did do everything they could to survive in the end it was never one hundred percent that they would survive. Knowing that alone could destroy a soldier emotionally. It was not just fear of attacks from the enemy on the other side, there was also the fear of not being safe on their side from disease. Disease was around every corner in the trenches. Everything carried disease from the earth itself to the rats and lice the soldiers had to live in. Any one soldier could be infected any moment without knowing it. Diseases and fear spread and moved forward quickly, but the war did not, “A war of movement in the west quickly degenerated into the horror of trench warfare, as neither side was able to deliver the knockout blow.” Trench warfare was not just a treacherous place that inflicted unimaginable suffering both physically and mentally to the brave soldier, but it also moved slower making the