ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Treponema Pallidum, Syphilis, Mycobacterium Leprae
4 Nov 2016
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Lecture #13: cemetery activity and infectious diseases i. Diseases major killer for the past 10,000 years: people started settling and farming, population increased, hunter gatherers did not tend to have big problems with infectious diseases because they were not settled. Plague: 14th century bubonic plague, 1/3 of europeans died, evoked fear, blame. A lot of women were blamed, especially widows: because widows were no longer under the control of a man, there"s a gene that prevents plague/hiv. the same gene. 1/3 of the world infected; 1. 5 million deaths in 2013: developing countries most affected. These bacterial infections can be observed in the skeletal remains: skeletal lesions on the spine or ribcage. Primary transmission through sexual contact and congeniality. 12 million affected in 1999 worldwide, mostly developing countries. Diagnosis problems = often people were infected for a while before showing symptoms: leprosy. Nerve loss is the most devastating effect: small pox. V. major had morality rate of 30-35%
