ANT208H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Syndemic, International Inequality, Structural Violence
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Development of a european "disease pool: sum of all the diseases that the eurasia population is familiar with, historically there were strong connections around the north world, social, environment and economic prerequisites, trade networks and globalization. European exploration and colonization- america"s as a case study o. Influx of european populations came with european diseases. Europeans brought measles and chicken pox to n. a and wiped out a lot of the population. Differences in population density and contact and consequent "disease pool" Animal domestication in europe versus the americas: guinea pigs, llama"s, alpaca"s. Treponema: cause of syphillis, associated with south america. Because explorers developed it after they returned from. From the orthopox group of viruses and derived from cowpox. Three forms, with variola major being the most deadly: long incubation period (10-14 days) which contributed to its spread, kills up to 1/3 of infected individuals, appears to be the form carried to the new world.
