History 2186A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Edward Jenner, Constant Contact, Tuberculosis
23 Apr 2016
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Living in middle ages made it difficult to distinguish between pestilence, religion or black magic. Epidemics are easy to track on a map and therefore are quantifiable. Usually disease will only hit one social class (ie. poor) causing a social divide and prejudice. Many of the worst diseases that killed the most people like measles don"t cause any panic but simply work their way through the population slowly year after year. Eradicated 1980s, predicted total 300 million kills, rodent based. 430 bc was first outbreak of smallpox and killed about of the population. then worked its way through the rest of the mediterranean. Iceland lost in 1300s, mexico in 1600s. Not only a disease that killed and infected poor as 6 european monarchs were killed by smallpox as well. Killed most victims within 3 days, causes extremities to rot before your eyes. First recorded outbreak was in 542 ad, killed 35-40 million people around the world (plague of justinian).
