Notes+on+Epidemics-Faith

__**Syphilis in Europe**__ • First in 1493-1493 when france was invading. • Spread to 20% in French cities • The disease lead to death quickly now takes longer o Could lose skin on face o Disease is related to a disease in South America in Yaws and came from wild animals o Syphilis started in Europe and then brought over to America

o Infectious disease caused by variola o Small rashes o Blisters get bigger and itchy o Blisters start to swell and form o All blisters become scabs and leave scars on body o Native Americans 30% have smallpox o Spread throughout culture o So many people died couldn’t bury them o When European settlers arrived they had the disease and brought it back to Europe o Can be inhaled and bodily fluid o Back then was no cure o Now there are vaccines
 * __Smallpox in North America__**

o Outbreak in London in 1854 o Caused by infection in intestions o Rapid lost of body fluid causes dehydratiomn o Caused by contaminated water o Fluids can be replaced and can help cure o People in London were getting sick and no one knew why o John Snow looked for why people where getting sick o Looked at the contaminated water o Told them to remove water pump and the disease slowly stopped and no more diseases occurred
 * __Cholera__**

__**Flu**__ o In 1918 o Swept across world and killed 5 million people o Caused by influenza o Transmitted through air and blood o There is now a vaccines o First phases in 1918 and lasted 3 days and was less serious no deaths o Second phase in fall of 1918 o Doctors could not identify disease o Hard to save health once infected people died in hours o Lungs filled with fluid and suffucate o Hit everywhere in the world o Young children and old o Spread in a few short weeks o Killed 25 million people in all o 25% of the population was affected o killed more people in that one year that in WWI

o in one year period people experience arthritis symptoms in 1977 o linked it to a tick as the transmitter o by 1982 found the tick o farmers where abandoned and turned to forest o more human to deer contact and from other animals o in 2001 vaccine taken off market went on market in 1997 o now have antibiotics o if untreated results in a lot of problems like twitching and memory loss and mood swings o started in Old Lyme, Conneticut
 * __Lyme__**

o caused by bacteria o lives in water
 * __Legionnaire Disease__**

o ingested by the mouth o contaminated food o water o started in Milwakee in 1993 o killed over 100 people and 400,000 were sick o causes were water that had parasites in it and people started to drink it o thought they were sick didn’t do anything o had to shut the plants down o found crypto in the water and the infection was also in the ice o stomach pains, fever, diarrah
 * __Crypto__**

o fatal disease in humans and primates o spread since 1976 o caused by infection with Ebola virus o there are 4 identified subtypes of Ebola virus o started in an animal o virus no know to be native in north America o an England worker hit himself with a needle and gave himself the disease o are short duration o once infected virus can be transmitted in several ways o contact with blood and secretion o often spread through families and friends o people don’t isolate the disease o spread to monkeys in Virginia through the air o but did not give to humans o ranges from 2-21 days o red eyes and a skin rash
 * __Ebola__**


 * __AIDS__**
 * started in 1980s
 * spread through gay young mens
 * goes from person to person from people
 * collection of symptoms damaging immune system
 * no cure for HIV or AIDS
 * treatment to slow down the virus depending on how fast we catch it
 * transmitted through bodily fluids blood transfusions
 * 33 million have AID worldwide
 * mostly transmitted between male and female
 * also through needles and blood
 * women and teens are at risks
 * screenings began in 1985
 * AIDS soon became a pandemic and went worldwide
 * 330,000 were children killed
 * many in subsuharn africa
 * get tested on a regular basis for AIDS or HIV

o symptoms are like the flu o hard to tell the difference so should go to the doctor o makes flu more dangerous o in Thailand in 2004 evidence of human to human spread in a family but only spread in family not any one else o in 2005 2 people infected by eating uncooked duck blood o in 2006 human to human spread with 8 people in same family and 7 died o caused by some one who just ate meat o responsible for 206 human deaths around the world o mortality rate is 95-100% in humans and happens in 48 hours o FDA approved the first vaccine in 2007 o Only stopped human to human contact o Intended only for people ages 18-64 o No has been infected in US o We are only country with a vaccine to protect avian flu
 * __bird flu__**