Africa
The mosquito-borne disease can be fatal when not treated in time
What is Malaria?
This method of disease prevention helped lower and eradicate the transmission of many diseases in the new world both pre-Columbus and post Columbus
What are vaccinations?
These are considered "the deadliest agent of conquest" because more victims of colonization were killed by diseases brought from Eurasian, than by either the gun or the sword
What are germs?
One of the most common virial disease across the global which originated in Europe
What is the flu?
With each epidemic eruption, some people survived, acquiring these 2 things to pass to the next generation
What are antibodies and immunities?
Most common disease in Africa
What is HIV/AIDs?
This category of diseases disproportionately effects minorities in the US
What are autoimmune diseases?
Known as the most deadly pandemic in human history, the carrier for this disease is suspected have been brought to Sicily from Central Asia via Genoese ships
What is the bubonic plague?
Survivors of epidemics pass these onto their descendants, and many Europeans still carry them today protecting against the plague
What is a mutation?
Before the use of this treatment, thousands of people died from epidemic diseases by living in overpopulated areas close to domesticated livestock
What are antibiotics?
The mutation that causes this disease was believed to have developed thousands of years ago to help against Malaria is common in people of African decent
What sickle cell anemia?
Arriving with the Europeans in 1520 this virus is killed 90% of Native Americans on the content
What is Smallpox?
These are common causes of febrile illness among children in South Asia
What are Malaria and typhoid?
Over time these evolved into new strains which became deadly to man, crossing species
What are animal infections?
Diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and cancers, known as this word, were the most common causes of death
What is Non-communicable?
In 2014 this virial disease which spread outside the Africa had a higher rate of death outside the continent
What is Ebola?
Diseases introduced to the Americas in the 15th-16th centuries that are still around today
What are measles, mumps, whooping cough, influenza, chicken pox, and typhus?
Two major causes of death in Asia-Pacific in 2019, accounting for 34.5% of all deaths in the Western Pacific region
What are Ischaemic heart diseases and stroke?
Cholera, yellow fever and meningitis are just some of the diseases introduced to this location during European conquest
Where is Africa?
In 2015, 87% of all cases of this disease in the United States occurred in racial and ethnic minorities
What is turberulosis?
Reasons for why preventable diseases are so common in Africa
What is poor hygiene and inaccessibility to clean water in parts of Africa?
Overall African Americans are more likely to get these diseases
What are diabetes, sickle cell anemia, tuberculosis, heart disease, stroke, asthma, and pneumonia, hepatitis C?
These are the major vectorborne disease agents in the Asia-Pacific region, with Ross River, Chikungunya and Barmah Forest viruses important in relatively restricted geographic areas.
What are the Dengue viruses and Japanese encephalitis (JE) viruses?
It is most commonly believed that Columbus brought this disease that wreaked havoc in Europe from the late 15th to the 18th century from the new world
What is syphilis?
The unceasing flow of sea, river, and road traffic between commercial centers spread the plague across huge distances in what is known as this
What is a “metastatic leap” ?