Suggested a few pages back that the Russian inability to supply fresh drinking water would prove debilitating.Cholera Epidemic for Russia Troops in Crimea?
An ethically-Tartar partisan group in Crimea is claiming on Telegram that Russia troops there are being admitted to the hospital with cholera symptoms...and that some number of those troops have died. Apparently, Russian troops are drinking from...www.dailykos.com
I await blaming Western bio-labs for shite Russian logistics.
It’s also a rather clever way to get off the line, at least for a while, and considerably less grisly than some alternatives. If the Russians are unable to supply fresh drinking water to their front lines, then I would imagine that they’re also unable to supply appropriate vaccines and saline solutions, which means that the afflicted have to be transported further back. Would expect more of this as the summer warms but also problems with the supply of drinking water to the civilIan populations in the occupied areas.
I read that 85% of Crimea’s water needs were met via the adjoining canal, a fifth of which went on direct human use, but, obviously, those needs cannot now be fulfilled. There will be bore holes on the peninsula but insufficient, and I’m not sure the Russian plans to build three desalination plants ever got off the ground. Of course, if the Russians are unable to maintain basic utilities, then that will hardly enamour them to the local population, especially when it becomes evident that they’re taking water from the Crimeans to slake the thirst of their troops.
And Nightingale made it worse; there was an open sewer within the hospital at Scutari. Wounded troops fared better in the field hospital and Nightingale finally twigged why. Her later career as an epidemiologist (fired by her experience in Crimea) compiling data on disease and its causes is her real claim to fame. She was well connected and got government money for her work.