destruction of culture. When Europeans came to the new world they brought many diseases. The diseases brought to this continent by the Europeans included bubonic plague‚ chicken pox‚ pneumonic plague‚ cholera‚ diphtheria‚ influenza‚ measles‚ scarlet fever‚ smallpox‚ typhus‚ tuberculosis‚ and whooping cough. The diseases introduced in the Americas by the Europeans were crowd diseases: that is‚ individuals who have once contracted the disease and survived become immune to the
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INTRODUCTION It is estimated that about three Percent of the world’s population carries the hepatitis virus. Viruses reproduce with the help of the host cell‚ they don’t contain ribosomes‚ cytoplasm and membrane-surrounded organelles. Hepatitis is caused by infected blood‚ similar to the HIV virus. There are at least six different hepatitis viruses: A‚ B‚ C‚ D‚ E‚ F. However‚ I am going to focus mainly on the most common types (A‚ B and C). Type C is the riskiest virus. It leads to liver cirrhosis
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The European invaders said their crimes were necessary in order to make humanity more “civilized”‚ But was it really? It is estimated that approximately 80-95% of the american population had died withing the 100-150 years following 1492. The smallpox epidemics are believed to have resulted in the largest death tolls among native americans‚ surpassing any wars. Withing the two years half of the 250‚000 natives on Haiti had died due to suicide‚ murder‚ or mutilation. In mexico nearly 90% of the
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of their population densities changed due to diseases and goods. When Europeans first came to the Americas in search of a fresh start they inadvertently brought with them many diseases that killed off most of the Native Americans such as measles‚ smallpox‚ whooping cough‚ chicken pox‚ and influenza. The introduction of cattle from Europe brought most of these diseases. The reason for this is because Native Americans had never been around cattle before so they couldn’t have developed immunity to them
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economic decline. When the Europeans sailed to the New World (the Americans)‚ they brought many diseases with them and disease spread quite rapidly through the air and by touch especially affecting the natives who weren’t immune to the new diseases. Smallpox is a highly contagious disease spread through direct contact and was a disease that caused a decline in population during the Columbian exchange along with chickenpox‚ and a disease called Syphilis. Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease which
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there are many different opinions on immunizing a child‚ especially when that child’s parent has a strong like or dislike towards vaccinating. Immunizations have been around for at least a thousand years and as technology advances more‚ there are new vaccines being designed to help protect our children from contracting contagious and sometimes deadly diseases‚ such as Bordetella pertussis‚ polio‚ and even influenza. For decades‚ all 50 states have required that parents vaccinate their children against
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Inoculation In Boston: A Disqualified Innovation In 1979‚ the World Health Organization announced the eradication of smallpox in the world. The use of vaccines has drastically improved people’s health around the world. Vaccination evolved from inoculation‚ an old medical practice dating back to China in the fifteenth century. Interestingly‚ although people in the past did not fully understand viruses‚ inoculation utilizes the same principle as vaccination by pre-exposing a healthy individual to
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Columbus‚ we wouldn’t have started trade routes with the New World‚ which is very clearly a positive impact (Doc. 6). As soon as Columbus arrived in the New World with his crewman; diseases spread like a wildfire‚ a negative impact. Columbus brought smallpox‚ the disease that so ravaged Tenochtitlan on the eve of Cortes’s final siege‚ and measles. The Indians spread STD’s to the crewman from having sexual interactions with one another (Doc. 7). In document 8 it basically shows a visual of the trade
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The foremost vital military advantage was European steel‚ not the guns that became therefore far-famed. whereas a couple of primitive firearms were wont to awe the Indians with sound and fury‚ Spanish swords were much stronger‚ grifter and additional deadly than the stone and soft-metal weapons of the Indians that battles between them were no contest. Guns were shuddery however swords did the dirty work. Horses were conjointly a significant a part of the Spanish military advantage over the Aztecs
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diseases‚ we need to be vaccinated. Our lowly immune systems‚ it is claimed‚ are no match for the most virulent diseases and deadly bacteria. Without the discovery of vaccines‚ we would be left vulnerable and lucky to survive horrible plagues and diseases. Or would we? There is amazing little proof that the effectiveness of vaccines in their current form is even worth the “peace of mind” we seek and the risk of life we take as we are injected with a potent toxic concoction. Vaccinations should rarely
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