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Volume 121, Issue 8 , Pages 634-639 , August 2007

The response to the trench diseases in World War I: A triumph of public health science

Received 19 July 2006 ,Revised 8 November 2006 ,Accepted 21 December 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2006.12.014

Public Health
Volume 121, Issue 8 , Pages 634-639 , August 2007