Editing Spanish–American War (section)

===Typhoid fever===
* 21,738 soldiers contracted [[typhoid fever]] (82% of all sick soldiers).
* 1,590 died from typhoid, resulting in a 7.7% mortality rate
* Typhoid accounted for 87% of all deaths from disease in assembly camps
* The epidemic affected every regiment. The assembly camps at home proved more deadly than the Cuban battlefields due to poor sanitation and inadequate medical knowledge about disease transmission.<ref>Vincent J. Cirillo, "Fever and Reform: The Typhoid Epidemic in the Spanish-American War" ''Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences'' 55.4 (2000): 363-397. [https://vlp.cah.ucf.edu/instructionalmaterials/UCF-VLP-9th-12th-SPAM-DiseaseImpact-TyphoidArticle.pdf online]</ref>
While typhoid was the primary killer, other diseases also plagued American forces. [[Yellow fever]] struck over 2,000 troops during the Cuban campaign. [[Malaria]] and [[dysentery]] were widespread among soldiers. About 55,000 Spanish troops in Cuba (out of 230,000) were incapacitated by illness.<ref>"The Great Fever: Scourge of the Spanish American War," ''American Experience'' (2006) [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/fever/ online]</ref>