Before war in the twentieth century, disease was the number one killer of combatants. Of the 620,000 recorded military deaths in the Civil War about two-thirds died from disease. However ...
"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death ... who were never identified 2 out of 3 — Number of Civil War deaths that occurred from disease rather than battle 68,162 — Number of inquiries ...
The highly infectious disease, caused by a virus ... President Bashar al-Assad before escalating into a full-scale civil war. Eleven million other people have been displaced by the fighting.