HIST 123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Yellow Fever, Haitian Revolution, Flavivirus
29 Nov 2018
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Thinking about the european colonialism in the new world. Importance: not all diseases that travel from old world to new world have same effect. Crowd diseases: infectious, passed from person to other, directly transmitted, acute: also contact diseases: mostly that they acted synergistically with crowd diseases, you were more vulnerable host to another. Have their own history in greater caribbean. Geopolitical struggles, conflict between european powers and site of uprisings of people. Involve specific agent or organism that is passed from one. No intermediate host or reservoir (yellow fever, malaria, bubonic. Brief duration (days or weeks) after which victim either recovers or dies plague all involve vectors) here against european powers. Large plantations where rice, sugar, cotton, tobacco grown, tied with slave trade. Yellow fever and malaria: important roles in these struggles. Wasn"t a matter of bringing a pathogen order, but the ecological change in these areas. Can"t only have to bring the virus also the mosquito.
