trench nephritis

Many troops suffered from trench foot, trench fever and trench nephritis.

However, due to subsequently suffering acute trench nephritis and double pneumonia, he was invalided to Australia in May 1918.

Along with enemy action, many troops had to contend with new diseases: trench foot, trench fever and trench nephritis.

It has been proposed by several workers that trench nephritis was caused by hantavirus, although the classic descriptions from the First World War do not tally closely with the variants of hantavirus infection that have been described in the past 40 years.