[DouglasKC]

Could it be that there have always been these strange illnesses but no one connected the dots to report it?

This was a topic on WLS radio not too long ago. They had many military and ex-military people calling up and confirming that these kind of illnesses are pretty frequent...especially on ships and in the barracks. The navy guys said it was it was always the marines who would bring it in and get everyone else sick.

I think it's just more noticeable now because it's being reported.

[VOA]

. They had many military and ex-military people calling up and confirming that these
kind of illnesses are pretty frequent...especially on ships and in the barracks.

A fellow I met at work was a doctors assistant (medic?) on a US Navy ship for a couple
of years. I'd told him I'd had cellulitis (bacterial infection of skin).
He said they had to treat that a couple times a year on his ship...no rhyme or reason...
people just got infected, got a fever and a rash (hot to the touch).

A round of antibiotics almost never fails to clear it up.
(If I'd lived 100 years ago, I'd probably be minus my leg that gets cellulitis
every couple of years...)