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Smallpox vaccine was available in Europe, the United States, and the Spanish Colonies during the last part of the century. [4] [5] The Latin names of this disease are Variola Vera. The words come from various (spotted) or varus (pimple). In England, this disease was first known as the "pox" or the "red plague".
Sedgwick, W. T. Principles of sanitary science and the public health : with special reference to the causation and prevention of infectious diseases (1922) online; Shapiro, Sam et al.. Infant, Perinatal, Maternal, and Childhood Mortality in the United States (Harvard UP, 1968) online ppp.223-267 on public health programs. Smith. Susan Lynn.
The 1837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic spanned 1836 through 1840, reaching its height after the spring of 1837, when an American Fur Company steamboat, the SS St. Peter, carried infected people and supplies up the Missouri River in the Midwestern United States. [1] The disease spread rapidly to indigenous populations with no natural immunity ...
Pacific Northwest, United States Malaria, possibly other diseases too 150,000 [139] [140] 1829–1835 Iran plague outbreak 1829–1835 Iran: Bubonic plague: Unknown [141] 1834–1836 Egypt plague epidemic 1834–1836 Egypt: Bubonic plague: Unknown [142] 1837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic: 1837–1838 Great Plains, United States and Canada ...
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]
Patterson, K. David. "Yellow Fever Epidemics and Mortality in the United States, 1693 – 1905," Social Science and Medicine 34 (1992): 856– 57; Reiss, Oscar. Medicine in Colonial America (2000) Reiss, Oscar. Medicine and the American Revolution: How Diseases and Their Treatments Affected the Colonial Army (McFarland, 1998)
Some of these diseases included gonorrhea, syphilis, influenza, cholera, tuberculosis, the mumps, measles, smallpox, and leprosy (which lead to the creation of a leper colony on Molokai in the mid-1800s). [2] [3] While each disease brought a different outcome, they all contributed to the reduction of the Native Hawaiian population as they ...
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