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The International List of Causes of Death, a predecessor to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, is adopted. It is based on the classification of causes of death that was used by the City of Paris, which represented German, English, and Swiss classifications. [21] 1902: Organization
Estimates for the total casualties of World War II vary, but most suggest that some 60 million people died in the war, including about 20 million soldiers and 40 million civilians. [13] The Soviet Union lost around 27 million people during the war, about half of all World War II casualties. [14]
During World War II, the U.S. and Canada secretly investigated the use of rinderpest, a highly lethal disease of cattle, as a bioweapon. [ 91 ] [ 93 ] In the 1980s Soviet Ministry of Agriculture had successfully developed variants of foot-and-mouth disease , and rinderpest against cows, African swine fever for pigs, and psittacosis for chickens.
The Bengal famine of 1943 was a famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War II.An estimated 800,000–3.8 million people died, [A] in the Bengal region (present-day Bangladesh and West Bengal), from starvation, malaria and other diseases aggravated by malnutrition, population displacement, unsanitary conditions, poor ...
Prescribed 90 medications during the war years by Morell, Hitler took many pills each day for chronic stomach problems and other ailments. [28] He regularly consumed methamphetamine , barbiturates , opiates , and cocaine , [ 29 ] [ 30 ] as well as potassium bromide and atropa belladonna (the latter in the form of Doktor Koster's Antigaspills ).
During World War II, the diagnosis for shell shock was replaced with combat stress reaction. [6] [2] [3] These diagnoses resulted from soldiers being in combat for long periods of time. [2] There was some skepticism surrounding this diagnosis as some military leadership, including George S. Patton did not believe "battle fatigue" to be real. [2]
1918 campaign on the dangers of Spanish flu Ministry of Health poster used during the Second World War, designed by H. M. Bateman. Later film produced in 1945 "Coughs and sneezes spread diseases" was a slogan first used in the United States during the 1918–20 influenza pandemic – later used in the Second World War by Ministries of Health in Commonwealth countries – to encourage good ...
Most twins died during these procedures [16] and if one survived, they would be killed and dissected for comparative postmortem reports. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] However, some were killed without experimental "purpose", with 14 twins having their hearts injected with chloroform in one night.