ANTHROP 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Yersinia Pestis, Black Death, Genomics
4 Sep 2018
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2d 03 b efo re q u i z 4. Plague affliction, calamity w massive disruptive outbreak [of an infectious agent] Pestilence: disease outbreak w a high death rate idea if a plague conflates. Plague: affliction, calamity, scourge (metaphor) with a massive destructive outbreak: major event of high mortality - affliction. Used by early writers to refer to any severe crowd disease heavy mortality. Caused by yersina pestis named by the dude who found it. Sars was also a pandemic, so was h1n1 in 2009. Endemic entrenched in a region country or continent eg. influenza in canada. But not who decides what a case is, how accurate are the counts, can case definitions and counts be manipulated to serve interests other than public health. Realized aid was present in ineting drug users and hemophiliacs and caused by transmission of infectious agent (virus) 1983: the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv-1) was isolated. Few years later hiv-2 was discovered in west africa.
