After the attacks, he was sent back to England in June and admitted to Middlesex War Hospital for treatment where he was found to be suffering from "trench fever" and valvular disease of the heart ...

Papers from the CDC highlights public health concerns over the difficulty of identifying and treating B. quintana among homeless populations.

In some cases, the lice spread an infection known as ‘trench fever’. One way of killing the lice was to ‘pop’ them with the end of a cigarette. Soldiers also shared the trenches with pests ...

JRR Tolkien spent almost 18 months in Hull and East Yorkshire recovering from trench fever after World War One. The landscape of the area is said to have been the influence of some of his stories ...