Abstract
Military historians have focused on generals commanding troops in battle, but recently physicians have published research showing that bugs and germs can decide victory or defeat. In Rats, Lice and History, Hans Zinsser, MD, argues that “… soldiers have rarely won wars … typhus, with its brothers and sisters—plague, cholera, typhoid, dysentery—has decided more campaigns than Caesar, Hannibal, Napoleon, and all the inspector generals of history.”1 Physiologist Jared Diamond's work, Guns, Germs and Steel, explores the impact of germs in world history.
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