Of diseases ; bubonic plague · chickenpox · cholera · diphtheria · influenza · leprosy · malaria · measles · mumps · smallpox · typhoid fever · typhus · yellow fever.

When we list the infections brought to the New World from the Old, however, we find most of humanity's worst afflictions, among them smallpox, malaria ...

21 окт. 2024 г. · More assuredly, Native Americans hosted a form of tuberculosis, perhaps acquired from Pacific seals and sea lions.

One disease did travel the other direction—syphilis, a lethal sexually transmitted disease, came with travelers from the New World to Europe for the first time.

The first disease to appear in the New World was smallpox described in 1518 in Hispaniola. From there the disease moved rapidly to Mexico in 1520, exterminating ...

31 окт. 2023 г. · Other Diseases: (Old World) Early soldiers and sailors introduced bubonic plague, typhus, chicken pox, cholera, cowpox, measles, and many other ...

A few diseases were also shared with Europeans, including bacterial infections such as syphilis, which Spanish troops from the New World spread across European ...

These are viral diseases such as influenza, smallpox or measles, as well as bacterial diseases such as typhus, malaria or plague. Around the same time, an ...

4 июн. 2015 г. · Isolated tribes who emerge today face echoes of the epidemics that began in 1492 and were repeated for centuries.