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The history of syphilis has been well studied, but the exact origin of the disease remains unknown. [3] It appears to have originated in both Africa and America. [4] [5] As such, there are two primary hypotheses: one proposes that syphilis was carried to Europe from the Americas by the crew(s) of Christopher Columbus as a byproduct of the Columbian exchange, while the other proposes that ...
Young people with polio receiving physiotherapy in the 1950s. The social history of viruses describes the influence of viruses and viral infections on human history. Epidemics caused by viruses began when human behaviour changed during the Neolithic period, around 12,000 years ago, when humans developed more densely populated agricultural communities.
Aside from that, most of the major infectious diseases known today originated in the Old World (Africa, Asia, and Europe). The American era of limited infectious disease ended with the arrival of Europeans in the Americas and the Columbian exchange of microorganisms , including those that cause human diseases.
Disease Discoverer 2600 BC: Malaria [1] 1900 BC: Rabies: 1600 BC: Cancer: Hippocrates: ca 300: Dengue: Jin Dynasty (266–420) 9th century: Measles: Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi: 14th century: African trypanosomiasis: First described by Arab traders [2] 1798: Color blindness: John Dalton: 1798: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: John Dalton: 1881 ...
The history of malaria extends from its prehistoric origin as a zoonotic disease in the primates of Africa through to the 21st century. A widespread and potentially lethal human infectious disease, at its peak malaria infested every continent except Antarctica. [1]
This did not come easily with the virus’s stereotypes and the fear it brought to people who did not understand how it really worked. [110] When the epidemic began gaining more attention and effect within the communities of the United States, it mostly affected gay, white males and then came the common misconception: “gay syndrome” or ...
In the second year of the Peloponnesian War (430 BC), Thucydides described an epidemic disease which was said to have begun in Ethiopia, passed through Egypt and Libya, then come to the Greek world. In the Plague of Athens, the city lost possibly one third of its population, including Pericles. Modern historians disagree on whether the plague ...
The first European contact in 1492 started an influx of communicable diseases into the Caribbean. [1] Diseases originating in the Old World (Afro-Eurasia) came to the New World (the Americas) for the first time, resulting in demographic and sociopolitical changes due to the Columbian Exchange from the late 15th century onwards. [1]