
Bacterial Battleground
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
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Malaria - The Battlefield Casualty in 1939
There is one battlefield casualty for every thousand succumbing to disease in 19 forty three. One of my great heroes is a chap called headley verity, who joined up the day after the outbreak of war. He's not pulled off the battlefield by his own men and ten days later he's dead. And that is purely because they don't have panasilin, right? I mean, you know, it, chances, i he arady bee, all right, yes, i sen the tight i think he would have been omessarily. But i think ita been unlucky on both sides,. ecause panasilins as widely there till 19 forty four. So there
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