History 2186A/B Lecture 2: Week 2 Threats to the body
10 Oct 2016
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Disease panics in the old world: the plague, cholera, and smallpox. Disease panics in the old world: the history of epidemic disease, smallpox, bubonic plague (yersina pestis, cholera, long-term preconditions, short-term cause, spread, scapegoats, divine retribution, history of epidemic diseases: Epidemics are constant in human society; a universal panic. Smallpox, bubonic plague, cholera: people did(cid:374)"t u(cid:374)de(cid:396)sta(cid:374)d what caused these diseases and how to treat them = panic, however, not all diseases created panic measles was one of the largest diseases killing many but rarely created panic. India 1824-1914: bubonic plague created terror, panic, fright, hysteria; at the same time, there was malaria and tb (which were responsible for killing more people) but neither of those created as much panic as the bubonic plague: smallpox; Believed to have entered human population through rodents approximately 10,000 years ago; exhibited in art for ages; always been around.
