I imagine that’s happening on both sides.....and considering the environment of war troops are fighting in now I’d expect more diseases as well.
Trenches, bad supply trains, crappy weather, questionable kit…. In almost every war this is the rule not the exception. Disease has routinely been a bigger killer than bombs and bullets.
“and considering the environment of war troops are fighting in now I’d expect more diseases as well.”
Yup, not unusual.