[nathangdad]

If society breaks down the medical system breaks down. The diseases
you mention and others will begin to appear and take a horrific toll on the survivors. For survival purposes we will need to revert to the thinking of the middle ages when girls sixteen years of age (age at which it was considered best to start having children) will need to produce a large number of children to offset the death loss from diseases and the stillborn factor. Naturally, a large number of mothers will die in childbirth.

So, here comes the big question. Who is better off? The people who die in the initial breakdown of society or the survivors? Will this be a case wherein the suvivors curse the already dead? It very possibly could be this situation.

Lockjaw was more fatal in WW1 than your current statiscal
rate. But perhaps the lack of sanitation, food quality, water quality,
stress from combat and so on weakened the body thus making it
quite often a three day slide to death.

[Rex in OTZ]

I had gone through a industrial Hygene course for work they did a little about Job hazzard's encounterd, Tetnus thrives in fesis (shit) mainly in herbavores cattle/horses/sheep/goats also dogs/cats/people have the in ther digestive systems also the microbes disperce in the soil and set there wateing for a injury and when they enter a injury rusty metal is the worst but dirt in general is just as bad the toxins emitted from these microbes causes the parallisis.
There was rabies as well and the ???? mouse turd disease in SW U.S. the air bourne dust particles of Fesise and urine from rodents become airbourne and breathed in they did mention that the regular house mouse dident have as high a rate as pack rats and other wild rodents, weeks later cause a mostly fatal respatory desease that when left untreated will kill.