ANTHROP 2U03 Lecture 5: Week 5
6 Dec 2017
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Secrets in the bones the hunt for the black death killer. Mc, short answers, t/f (maybe fill in) . Room: mcmst etb 227 last name: a-m. Military campaigns dominated by epidemics since ancient times. War creates conditions that foster infectious disease. In almost every war up to and including wwi, more soldiers have died from disease than from combat or weapons. Even in wwi, the biggest killer of all was not the germans, or the british, or the russians, nor all three combined, but influenza: a(cid:374)d it does(cid:374)"t just kill soldiers . Any of several forms of infectious disease caused by rickettsia (bacteria like microorganism) Symptoms: sudden fever, headaches, chills and rash. Epidemic typhus the deadliest form of typhus ~ 30 70% case fatality rate. A disease of filthy, crowded, fetid places. Also known as prison fever, ship fever, jail fever: confined places. Enters the medical literature in 1546 ce. Recurrent outbreaks occur during modern european history.
