The Secrets of the Anzacs: The Untold Story of Venereal D...
Dunbar, Raden Here is a truly astonishing statistic: during World War I, about 60, 000 soldiers in the Australian army were treated by army doctors in Egypt, Europe, and Australia for venereal diseases - almost the same number of diggers who were killed during the war.
This silent, secret scourge took hold in Cairo in 1914, and continued until 1919 when survivors of the war waited in Europe to be repatriated. Nobody wanted to know about it, at first - and t...