Furthermore, the British tended to drive the native populations away, rather than to enslave them as the Spaniards did; so that the epidemics of British America occurred beyond the range of colonists’ direct observation. Even so, the surviving records of North America do contain references to ...
The most popular theory of how the plague ended isthrough the implementation of quarantines. The uninfected would typically remain in their homes and only leave when it was necessary, while those who could afford to do so would leave the more densely populated areas and live in greater isolati...
World for the staggering disparity between the indigenous population of America in 1492—new estimates of which soar as high as 100 million, or approximately one-sixth of the human race at that time—and the few million full-blooded Native Americans alive at the end of the nineteenth century....
quicklist: 2category: Diseases More Common in Minoritiestitle: Heart Diseaseurl: text: New CDC data published this week show that the number of people with heart disease declined overall between 2006 and 2010. Whites and Hispanics showed the biggest decreases in that time. Asians also saw a dec...
Many skin diseases are seemingly common to most of the ethnic populations, however, including blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and Native Americans. These diseases include acne vulgaris; pigmentary disorders; eczematous dermatitis; and infection caused by bacteria, fungi, and viruses. Diseases of a more ...
an ancestral pathogen already present in the common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans could have co-speciated long ago, when the chimpanzee and human lineages diverged around five million years ago; or else an animal pathogen could have colonized humans more recently and evolved into a specialized...
1,800-year-old silver amulet could rewrite history of Christianity in the early Roman Empire 2 Oldest firearms ever found in US were abandoned by Spanish in 16th-century battle against Native Americans 3 James Webb telescope spots more than 100 new asteroids between Jupiter and Mars — and some...
Furthermore, the British tended to drive the native populations away, rather than enslaving them as the Spaniards did, so that the epidemics of British America occurred beyond the range of colonists’ direct (35)observation. Even so, the surviving records of North America do ...
In the United Arab Emirates, a country with the fifth highest rate of inter-family marriages, there are currently more than 250 types of genetic diseases, the second highest after neighboring Oman. Arabs suffer from high rate of gene disorders CYPRUS has a higher than average incidence rate of...
There have been serious, produce-related outbreaks associated with raw spinach in the United States and with vegetable sprouts in Germany, and these types of outbreaks have become more common. The raw spinach outbreak in 2006 was produced by the bacterium E. coli serotype O157:H7. A serotype ...