ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lyme Disease, Venezuelan Hemorrhagic Fever, Hepatitis C Virus
27 Feb 2017
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Palaeolithic diet: lots of vegetables, low in fat, sodium and carbohydrates. Little or no diseases of af uence (modern diseases) Heart disease, obesity, etc. and mostly died from trauma and infection. Epidemiology: the study of the determinants, dynamics, and distribution of disease within a population. Associated with major changes in human way of life. Shifts in human ecology = new disease ecology = emerging or new diseases. Food production altered human relationships with environment. Archaeological evidence (~10 000-12 000 years ago) Cultivation: taking care of plants and animals. Domestication: plants and animals under human control (bring in household and genetic changes through selective breeding) Change in way humans interact with environment. Changes in demography (population, ages, etc. ) and economy (hierarchies - elites and crafts, etc. ) Sedentary communities (how long people are staying in one place) and urbanization. New opportunity for zoonoses (infectious diseased acquired from animals) Rats = louse and ea-borne diseases (ex. bubonic plague)
