ANTC68H3 Lecture : Lecture 3
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Antc68 lecture 3: epidemics in human h istory. Introducing behavioural and household changes in contexts that lack the infrastructural, structural and political support to sustain them. Human-virus interactions: human strategies of antiviral immunity, cell-mediated immunity against virus-infected cells (mediated by cytotoxic t-cells and. Nk [natural killer] cells, both capable of cell destruction: antiviral antibodies, which destroy viral envelope proteins (doesn"t kill all of virus, but can inhibit disease expression, non-immunological adaptations to viruses: lysozymes, intestinal enzymes and bile. Biocultural anthropology and the evolution of infectious disease epidemics. Impoverishment: one of most significant factors in maintaining infectious disease rates among humans, rate of impoverishment increases every year. Infectious disease and human history: disease-causing pathogens co-evolved with us, with homo sapiens" expansion ~ 120,000 years ago: human-microorganism contacts limited to infectious agents whose life cycles could accommodate frequent residential shifts of migratory human gatherers and hunters.
