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Epidemics of the 19th century were faced without the medical advances that made 20th-century epidemics much rarer and less lethal. Micro-organisms (viruses and bacteria) had been discovered in the 18th century, but it was not until the late 19th century that the experiments of Lazzaro Spallanzani and Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation conclusively, allowing germ theory and Robert ...
Disease in colonial America that afflicted the early immigrant settlers was a dangerous threat to life. Some of the diseases were new and treatments were ineffective. Malaria was deadly to many new arrivals, especially in the Southern colonies.
At critical points in American history the public health movement focused on different priorities. When epidemics or pandemics took place the movement focused on minimizing the disaster, as well as sponsoring long-term statistical and scientific research into finding ways to cure or prevent such dangerous diseases as smallpox, malaria, cholera.
While working on plantations in the Southern United States, many slaves faced serious health problems. Improper nutrition, the unsanitary living conditions, and excessive labor made them more susceptible to diseases than their owners; the death rates among the slaves were significantly higher due to diseases.
2 1800s. 3 1900s. 4 2000s. 5 See also. ... This is a list of notable disease outbreaks in the United States: ... 2006 North American E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in ...
Influx of disease in the Caribbean; N. 1775–1782 North American smallpox epidemic; P. Picardy sweat; R. 1770–1772 Russian plague; Y. 1793 Philadelphia yellow ...
Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century; 0–9. 1837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic; ... 1847 North American typhus epidemic; O. 1812–1819 Ottoman plague ...
The history of colonial disease in Hawaii did not end with Captain Cook's diseases. Throughout the 1800s and into the 1900s, Hawaii was hit with many more outbreaks of disease. In 1803, a plague (thought to be yellow fever) came to the islands killing possibly up to 175,000 people. [10]