Pantnagar Journal of Research

Abstract

Unsound hygiene, dietary deficiencies, and battle wounds set the stage for epidemic infection, while inadequate information about disease causation greatly hampered disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. War causes destruction of the infrastructure and related operational mechanisms. Public health gets compromised due to limited resources. As a consequence of which disease outbreak takes place and creates public health havoc. Many vector borne and water borne diseases may scale up in a population over a short period of time if ill managed.