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Major Impacts (5)
- Plague
- Smallpox + Americas
- Cholera
- 1918 Flu
- HIV
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Black Plague (4)
- Yersinia pestis
- on Rat Fleas
- Causes immune response - Buboes -lymph nodes infected
- mortality = 50-90% untreated
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Plague History
- China 1334 3 million dead
- Kaffa+Hannibeg khan+biowarfare+people ran from italy = Europe gets plague
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Spread of Plague (3)
- Alexandria 1347 - 1000ppl/day
- Ciaro 7500/day
- 60 years
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Outcome of plague (3)
- Social breakdown
- 1/3 Europe dies
- Decameraon+cantebury tales = classes mixing
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Smallpox (4)
- 18th centruy 60 million people
- 30-35% mortality (80% children under 5)
- targets skin cells and seperates skin from body = confluent (Discreet pustules)
- Earliest plague known (Athens 430 BC)
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Smallpox + America (6)
- 90-95% mortality for 200 years
- 1519 cortes + Mexico
- Killed most of Aztec army
- Millions of iriquois
- 6 epidemics in boston
- Plague gives immunity to small pox
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