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1800s. The Ottomans were defeated in several wars including the Crimean War (1853-56), Russo-Turkish War (1877-78) and First Balkans War (1912-13). These defeats, along with rising nationalism and revolutions in Ottoman-controlled regions, resulted in gradual but significant losses of ...
Europe’s ambivalence to war By the start of the 20th century, many Europeans seemed indifferent to the dangers of war. This was partly due to their lack of exposure to it. Aside from the Crimean War (1853-56) and the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), the second-half of the 1800s was...
Brucellosis, infectious disease of humans and domestic animals characterized by an insidious onset of fever, chills, sweats, weakness, pains, and aches, all of which resolve within three to six months. The disease was initially referred to as Malta fever
Devastating famine in the Indian region of Bengal that occurred in 1943 and resulted in the deaths of some three million people. It was the result not of a shortfall in food production but of an entitlement failure. Special wartime factors inhibited the
(i.e., Zika virus and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus) or through close contact with or the consumption of infected animals (for example, Ebola virus, Marburg virus, or Nipah virus), and transmit among humans through direct contact with body fluids (Table 1). Virus transmission via ...