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Originally Posted by asanovic7
Yesterday on schedule was a football match and in the end it was cancelled due to influenza spread amongst the players of one team(although I think they are lying, asw...s are just tired)..
Were there any occurences in the war like this one? Whole team out? 
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You have no idea what importance health and fatigue play in war. There is a vast medical literature on this problem.
Typhus alone killed more soldiers in Napoleon's armies than all opponents in all battles combined.
German SS troops consumed vast quantities of amphetamines (speed) as did American fighter pilots and probably a lot more solders and sailors we don't know about.
Influenza killed more solders (and civilians) in 1918-1919 than the war did.
Malaria alone disabled more Americans in WWII than the Japanese did.
Hans Zensser's "Rats, Lice and History" in a marvelous book which shows some of the problems.