Epidemics in America

Since the first governor of the Massachusetts colony in John Winthrop, the American epidemic is that the Americans are trying to create a utopian society (40 years old Brinkley), so the United States should see himself as a "mountain town" It was announced that. Winthrop America as the Kingdom of God, this place will not have trouble repeated in the rest of Europe and the rest of the world. This ideal is also appreciated by the American society, but Americans can not accept the idea that the epidemic may attack their own country.

Several examples will help explain how these factors are configured for a particular epidemic. America's epidemic of the 18th century is the most annoying thing of the 1730s when it hit the village of New England in the north, small towns and diphtheria vogue. By exceeding the destiny of rural New Hampshire and Massachusetts states, the epidemic has had an unusual influence for children and their families. From the epidemiological point of view of diphtheria epidemics - repeatedly fears like New England colonies repeatedly cause smallpox epidemics - is a phenomenon caused by isolated isolation and weak. Epidemics in London are epidemic in New England and can become a very deadly disease: "In some towns, nearly half of children's deaths, sometimes people are actually colonized I am afraid to destroy it. "

Aboriginal people in north North America also have a similar effect. During 1616, along the coast of New England in 1618, the epidemic deprived 75% of the population of indigenous peoples. In the 1630's, at least half of Huron easy Iroquoids around the Great Lakes died of smallpox. In addition to smallpox, other diseases occurring in Europe caused severe damage to North American native people. These diseases include measles, scarlet fever, varicella, whooping cough, plague, malaria, dysentery, cholera, yellow fever and influenza. In most cases, these diseases effectively kill the native Americans more than European explosives.

When Europeans began arriving on the American coast, they led to epidemics leading to one of the biggest population imbalances in human history. Before arriving in Europe, there were no diseases such as smallpox, measles, yellow fever etc in these parts of the world. These diseases have never been touched and indigenous people do not have the antibodies necessary to fight infections. Europeans continue to explore new areas Christopher Columbus arrived in America as a starting point in the United States in 1492 and touched a different community, so the epidemic Aboriginal population greatly for the next 400 years Decrease.