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March 6, 2014 ! Diseases during the French Revolution I think that this activity let us know that the French war didn't get a good results, not only in the way of ruling and thinking of the nation, the health of the country was, in this case, affected too. Many people forgot from the sanitary part for helping their health and at the end they got many different diseases such as, Tuberculosis, which is one of the most important. Now a days this disease is said to be one of the deadliest diseases around the world, even with all the technology that we have today, so in that time there was no hope at all to come back from that disease. Tuberculosis affects mainly the lungs, but it can also affect other vital organs. What the bacteria causes (tuberculosis starts when the bacteria enters your immune system) is to create diseases such as pneumonia. The problem with it is that the lungs become infected and they enlarge. This 2 combinations were mortal at that time. Tuberculosis changed the lives of people, many of the population died, because there were no medicines to help them. Another terrible diseases that affected the French Revolution was smallpox. This diseases is caused by two virus: variola major and variola minor. This diseases can be life threatening. Smallpox is a contagious infection that affected the French Revolution. During this time there were no medicines to cure the infections. Originally you get the disease by breathing or touching the smallpox virus. Even though not all the people