The Gallipoli gallop: dealing with dysentery on the ‘fringes of hell’
Steve Flint A C , Glyn Harper A and Nick Wilson B
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A Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
B University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand
C Corresponding author. Email: S.H.Flint@massey.ac.nz
Microbiology Australia 35(3) 147-143 https://doi.org/10.1071/MA14050
Published: 16 June 2014
Abstract
The Gallipoli campaign is a well recorded piece of New Zealand history, particularly remembered every year on ANZAC Day. Dealing with the seemingly hopeless task of facing an enemy in well entrenched positions on higher ground was made even more challenging by the appalling conditions the soldiers had to face in terms of addressing basic survival needs and dealing with infections. A particularly burdensome part of the latter was dysentery.
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