NATS 1575 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Neolithic Revolution, Unleavened Bread, Pneumonic Plague
29 Sep 2016
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Domesticated dogs 13, 500 bce: whooping cough, measles, spillover . Cattle: smallpox, tuberculosis bacterial infection, came from mycobacterium bovinus milk. Horse: rhinovirus causes common cold. Bird: influenza, unleavened bread phytic acid insoluble bond to iron iron deficiency/anemia. Pre-european contact: the health of new world populations. Wow these people are healthy! look at their skin! . Disease led to a signification amount of deaths in first nations peoples: they had no built up immunity, they left the old world before the invention of agriculture. Major diseases associated with farming & civilization originate in the old world (10,000-4,000. New world populations have no major diseases (no pigs, horses, bovids) Bacterial sexually transmitted disease caused by treponema palladium. Spread through direct contact with infectious sore or in vitro. Causes damage to hard tissue in later stages. Common in new world before contact, not present in old until after contact. One of the only disease that first nations brought to europeans.
