Armies have historically spread venereal disease effectively
Evidence
Obviously this was not something specific to Mehmed Ali’s army; venereal diseases have always been thought to spread most effectively through armies. On Napoleon’s army’s encounter with syphilis while in Egypt and elsewhere, see Elting, Napoleon’s Grande Armée, p. 294. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1293
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader interest in the birth of the modern Egyptian army and how its disciplinary practices paralleled European military medicine.
Related
- Soldiers’ venereal diseases drained the fighting force in Syria (similarity 0.82)
- Syphilis alone matched all other soldier ailments combined in Syria (similarity 0.80)
- Squalid living conditions and poor hospitals caused rapid disease spread among Egyptian troops (similarity 0.79)
- Mehmed Ali’s army drew equally from Ottoman as from French military models. (similarity 0.78)