Examples of North American smallpox epidemic in the following topics:
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- Smallpox broke out in army camps in 1775, during an epidemic that lasted for most of the war.
- The North American smallpox epidemic of 1775–1782, when the fatal infectious disease spread across the continent, coincided with the American Revolutionary War.
- By its end, the smallpox epidemic had reached as far west as the Pacific Coast and as far north as Alaska, infecting virtually every part of the vast continent of North America.
- A new epidemic of smallpox would ravage North America during the Revolutionary War.
- Discuss the impact of the smallpox epidemic during the American Revolution
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- The invasion of North America by European powers had widespread effects on American Indian life.
- Smallpox proved particularly fatal to American Indian populations.
- In 1618–1619, smallpox killed 90% of the American Indians in the area of the Massachusetts Bay.
- Smallpox epidemics in 1780–1782, and 1837–1838, brought devastation and drastic depopulation among the Plains Indians.
- The reintroduction of the horse to North America had a profound impact on the American Indian culture of the Great Plains.
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- Soon after, observers noted that immense numbers of indigenous Americans began to die from these diseases.
- After the epidemics had already killed massive numbers of indigenous Americans, many newer European immigrants assumed that there had always been relatively few indigenous peoples.
- One of the most devastating diseases was smallpox; other deadly diseases included typhus, measles, influenza, bubonic plague, cholera, malaria, mumps, yellow fever, and pertussis (whooping cough).
- While disease swept swiftly through the densely populated empires of Mesoamerica, the more scattered populations of North America saw a slower spread.
- While epidemic disease was by far the leading cause of the population decline of the American indigenous peoples after 1492, there were other contributing factors--all of them related to European contact and colonization.
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- These pathogens are the cause of disease epidemics, in the sense that without the pathogen, no infectious epidemic occurs.
- Many infectious diseases that previously killed by the millions were greatly reduced in the 20th century, with the most notable achievement being the eradication of smallpox.
- Normally not a problem to North Americans, malaria is the infectious disease most deadly to children worldwide.
- Normally not a problem to North Americans, malaria is the infectious disease most deadly to children worldwide.
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- It is estimated that new virgin soil epidemics (pathogens introduced by Europeans in previously uninfected areas) decimated over "90 percent of the population in Meso-America and the Andes" during the sixteenth century.
- Encounters between explorers and populations in the rest of the world often introduced new diseases, which sometimes caused local epidemics of extraordinary virulence.
- In response to becoming infected, European military and government officials living in African and Asian colonies were quarantined to safety in areas away from natives, who were believed to be disease carriers, and, thus, "biologically inferior. " The leading cause of death in Europe and North America in the nineteenth century was tuberculosis.
- The sleeping sickness epidemic in Africa was arrested due to mobile teams systematically screening millions of people at risk.
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- The Pequot War was the first war between Native Americans and English settlers in northeastern America and foreshadowed European domination.
- Despite early attempts to reconcile differences, continued confrontations precipitated the first war between Native Americans and English settlers in northeastern America and set the stage for the ultimate domination of the region by Europeans.
- The second event that weakened the Pequot was the smallpox epidemic which they suffered in 1633-34.
- The separation of the Mohegan and the smallpox cost the Pequot almost half of their people.
- Discuss the tensions between the North Eastern Colonists and Pequot Indians that eventually culminated in the Pequot War.
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- Widespread trade networks extending as far west as the Rockies, north to the Great Lakes, south to the Gulf of Mexico, and east to the Atlantic Ocean.
- Since the natives lacked immunity to new infectious diseases, such as measles and smallpox, epidemics caused so many fatalities that they undermined the social order of many chiefdoms.
- Other Native American groups, having migrated many hundreds of miles and lost their elders to diseases, did not know their ancestors had built the mounds dotting the landscape.
- This contributed to the myth of the Mound Builders as a people distinct from Native Americans.
- Mississippian peoples were almost certainly ancestral to the majority of the American Indian nations living in this region in the historic era.
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- The Virginia Colony became the wealthiest and most populated British colony in North America, largely due to its tobacco crop industry.
- The Colony of Virginia was an English colony in North America that existed briefly during the 16th century and then continuously from 1607 until the American Revolution.
- Disease and conflicts caused many deaths to the American Indians and the English invaders.
- By the mid-17th century, the Powhatan and allied tribes were in serious decline in population, due in large part to epidemics of newly introduced infectious diseases such as smallpox and measles, to which they had no natural immunity.
- The Virginia Colony became the wealthiest and most populated British colony in North America.
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- "Patient Zero" was used to refer to the index case in the spread of HIV in North America.
- For example, in the early years of the AIDS epidemic there was controversy about a so-called Patient Zero, who was the basis of a complex transmission scenario.
- Dugas was a flight attendant who was sexually promiscuous in several North American cities.
- He was vilified for several years as a "mass spreader" of HIV, and seen as the original source of the HIV epidemic among homosexual men.
- A 2007 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences claimed that, based on the results of genetic analysis, current North American strains of HIV probably moved from Africa to Haiti and then entered the United States around 1969, probably through a single immigrant.
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- Even before the war officially ended, the British Crown began to implement changes in order to administer its vastly expanded North American territory.
- General Amherst, the British commander-in-chief in North America, was in charge of administering policy toward American Indians, which involved both military matters and regulation of the fur trade.
- Shawnees and Delawares in the Ohio Country, especially, had been displaced by British colonists in the east, motivating their resistance along with food shortages and epidemic disease.
- On October 7, 1763, the Crown issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, an effort to reorganize British North America after the Treaty of Paris.
- Although the conflict divided tribes and villages, the war also saw the first extensive multi-tribal resistance to European colonization in North America and was the first war between Europeans and American Indians that did not end in complete defeat for the American Indians.