Chapter 3 Article 3: Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs: An Indigenous Nation s Fight against Smallpox, 1518-1824 Chapter two of the textbook, Biosecurity and Bioterrorism Containing and Preventing Biological Threats, by Jeffrey R. Ryan, goes into extensive detail on the numerous types of category A diseases and their agents. Category A diseases and agents, hold the greatest potential for harm in the case of a bioterrorist attack (Ryan 2016, p. 51). Throughout this chapter the different types of category A diseased are listed, one of the most feared and well know of these is Smallpox. Pursuing this further, if Smallpox were to be formed into a biological weapon, it would be very hazardous to the citizens of the United States (Ryan 2016, p.…
The Bubonic Plague took 2 years to spread around Europe. The Bubonic Plague spread throughout Europe. There was a lot of deadly symptoms. The people were scared of Bubonic Plague. The Bubonic Plague was a very devastating disease.…
Did you know that 4.8 million people died in France, from the Bubonic plague? The Bubonic plague has deadly symptoms. The plague spread throughout Europe. The plague started in 1347.…
According to document A , around 1447 in Constantinople , the bubonic plague started to spread causing millions of people to die. Beliefs of how it came and spread had been made . The plague was killed people itself but also caused people to kill other people. A cure for the plague was never found. People affected with the plague had swollen groins that started under their armpits and turned black , the swollen groins could grow as big as an apple and come shaped like an egg.…
However, that equilibrium was shattered with the emergence of European colonists in North America who brought over a plague of diseases from Europe, such as smallpox, typhus, measles, and among other disease. Unfortunately,…
This primary source document, written by Al-Razi, offers insight about the context of Smallpox. The source reflects a commentary on Galen’s influence and offers summaries composed in a book of additional input to the material discussed. Also, it appears that the source could have easily been encompassed in a medical encyclopedia. Likewise, the source resembles a treatise in a book. The primary source has two main purposes: to portray the causes of Smallpox and the method of spreading Smallpox.…
Many of the early knowledge of diseases that were discussed and written in journals by witnesses were diseases that were exchanged from Europe to the American Natives. “The migration of man and his maladies in the chief cause of epidemics. And when migration takes place, those creatures who have beer genetic material has been least tempered by the variety of world disease.” (Crosby pg 37) Many of the diseases transported from the Old World to the New World were Small Pox, Measles, Malaria, Yellow Fever, Influenza, and Chicken pox.…
A person caught this disease by breathing in the smallpox virus or by coming into contact with the pus filled boils or scabs on a victim's skin. Death often occurred after a high fever, the eruption of of boils, and massive vomiting of blood. Survivors were also usually immune from other smallpox infections. The first smallpox epidemic in the new world beginning 1518 on Hispaniola among the Taino. Within 100 years the Taino were extinct mainly due to smallpox and other diseases.…
Source two is an excerpt from a much longer text. It is an account of smallpox and its serious impacts that it had on the Aztec civilisation from an Aztecs point of view. It was written by an unknown Aztec, most likely a male as mostly the males learned to write, during a smallpox epidemic and it has been translated into English by a historian. ‘No longer could they walk; they only lay in their abodes, in their beds. No longer could they move, no longer could they bestir themselves, no longer could they raise themselves, no longer could they stretch themselves out face down, no longer could they stretch themselves out on their backs.…
The Bubonic plague was a horrific time in history. The Plague took Europe by storm. It started December 31st, 1347(Source: Plague Map). People were dying all throughout Europe. Just about 23 million died between the years 1345 and 1400(Source: http://www.hyw.com/books/history/Black_De.htm) .…
The Inevitable War Many would argue that the Spanish and Aztec war could have been avoided but the truth is that the Aztec and Spanish war was inevitable. The war had not one or two reasons, but many causes. First it was the disease, which the Aztec were newly introduced to and had no immunity or cure for. Another problem was that the Spanish were overwhelmingly greedy, and had not been satisfied with they already had and stayed to get more gold and people to convert. The main problem was that both the Spanish and Aztec were incredibly ethnocentric, which led to the differences in religious belief.…
The arrival of Yellow Fever in the western Hemisphere came into the “new world” by Christopher Columbus and his crew. They were out to discover new land and by going around the world they encountered new disease therefore spreading more…
During the 14th century, around 75 to 200 million people died because of the disease known as the Black Plague. These numbers show that around a third of Europe’s population was completely wiped out. Many terrible changes occurred including the rich and the poor going against each other, blaming one another for causing this horrific disease. The Black Plague was the worst epidemic that has ever been recorded in the world’s history because of the disease’s ability to spread rapidly, the terrible process of infection, and as well as the long term effects that it had on Europe.…
Smallpox, also called variola major, was one of the world’s deadliest plagues,…
There is at least 93 confirmed pandemics and epidemics from the 16th through the 20th century. The Europeans were under the impression God was on their side and that he was the reason behind Native Americans dying in such large numbers. Some Native Americans however believed that God had abandoned them, or that smallpox was a personification of the “bad spirit”, and witchcraft was the cause of all the disease and they confirmed these belief as their healers were helpless in curing the outbreaks (Halverson, 2016) . Many Native Americans searched for various outlets to cure their disease, the only problem was the cure “antibiotics” had not been invented yet.…