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Cholera
Cholera was common in the late 1800s. It started when people came to New Orleans. -
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Scarlet Fever
Happened in 1861 where it hit Fredricksburg. -
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Tuberculosis
1800-1922 is when it occured, 90 percent of the population got it and 80 percent died of it -
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yellow fever
1800s, scientists believed yellow fever was spread by direct contact with infected individuals or contaminated objects. In the US -
Cholera
Happened in the 1800s, before modern water and sewage treatment systems eliminated its spread by contaminated water. -
Diarrhea
In the late 1800 and early 1900's, infectious diseases were the most serious threat to health and well being. -
Tuberculosis
had killed one in seven of all people that had ever lived. Throughout much of the 1800s -
Smallpox
The disease affects only humans. No animal reservoirs or insect vectors -
Tuberculosis
It was originally called, Consumption, phthisis, scrofula in the 1800's. -
Diarrhea
Itw was cured by mixing pine tree with water and egg whites. Drinking this every day or so. -
Small Pox
Small Pox killed many native populations. In the 1800's it was still causing the deaths of thousands when introduced into populations, such as in Hawaii, by European explorers. Fortunately, this virus was eliminated as a natural cause of disease. -
Diarrhea
Diarrhea may not be very serious but it is one of the most miserable diseases you can get, -
Dysentery
In the 1700s-1800s, dysentery was a disease causing many deaths. ... In fact, in some areas in Sweden 90 percent of all deaths were due to dysentery during the worst outbreaks. But not horrible in the US -
Tuberculosis
Throughout much of the 1800s, consumptive patients sought "the cure" in sanatoriums, where it was believed that rest and a healthful climate could change the course of the disease. -
Yellow Fever
1793, refugees from a yellow fever epidemic in the Caribbean fled to Philadelphia. They brought yellow fever to the US. -
Dysentery
wolwide about 600,000 people died int the 1800s. -
Dysentery
Most of the deaths occured in developing countries among children under age five. -
Smallpox
During the 1770s, smallpox killed at least 30% of the West Coast Native Americans. The smallpox epidemic of 1780–1805 brought devastation and drastic depopulation among the Plains Indians. This epidemic is a classic instance of European immunity and non-European vulnerability. -
Scarlet Fever
red lines or streaks around the armpits, elbows, and knees.
flushed face.
strawberry tongue, or a white tongue with red dots on the surface.
red, sore throat with white and yellow patches.
fever above 101°F (38.3°C)
chills. -
Cholera
Cholera Started in 1817 in the US. -
Scarlet Fever
Historical data suggest at least three epidemiologic phases for scarlet fever. In the first, which appears to have begun in ancient times and lasted until the late eighteenth century, scarlet fever was either endemic (always present at a low level) or occurred in relatively benign outbreaks separated by long intervals. In the second phase (~1825-1885), -
Cholera
he cholera epidemic of 1832 killed thousands of people in Europe and North America and created mass panic across two continents. Astoundingly, when the epidemic struck New York City it prompted as many as 100,000 people, nearly half the city's population, to flee to the countryside. The arrival of the disease prompted widespread anti-immigrant feeling, as it seemed to flourish in poor neighborhoods populated by new arrivals to America. -
Dysentery
Cases have the symptoms of diarrhea but is more life threatening. These types of cases were usually found in the late 1830's. -
Typhoid fever
William Budd was an English doctor responsible for treating an outbreak of typhoid in 1838, when he noted that the poison, as he then called it, was present in the excretions of the infected and could be transmitted to healthy people through contaminated water consumption. Upon realizing this association, he suggested isolating excrement to help control future outbreaks. -
Yellow Fever
It is carried and transferred by mosquitoes. -
Diarrhea
It was worse if you were unhealthy since you were already sick and didnt have healthy things to eat. -
Typhoid Fever
In the 1800s During the Civil War, there were 75,418 cases of typhoid fever in white Union soldiers and 27,,058 (36%) of then died. no one knows where the first case was -
Scarlet Fever
most common cause of bacterial sore throat ("strep throat") -
Diarrhea
Happened in the civil war to many soldiers. -
Smallpox
In 1877, Ali Maow Maalin, a hospital cook in Somalia, became the last person get a natural case of smallpox. -
Yellow fever
Yellow fever takes its name from the yellow-ish color of affected patients’ skin and eyes. The virus affects multiple organ systems and causes internal bleeding; it can be fatal. Yellow fever broke out in Boston in 1693, Philadelphia in 1793 and Norfolk, Virginia in 1855, but the worst American outbreak of yellow fever occurred in the Mississippi River Valley in 1878. -
Scarlet Fever
In both England and the United States, mortality from scarlet fever decreased beginning in the mid-1880s. By the middle of the twentieth century, the mortality rate from scarlet fever again fell to around 50%. -
Typhoid Fever
It was dicovered in 1880 -
Smallpox
Was an infection that was caused by the virus called variola virus. It is the only disease ever to be deliberately removed from the human population. -
Tuberculosis
Robert Koch’s identification of the tuberculosis bacillus in 1882 helped to convince members of the medical and public–health communities that the disease was contagious. Preventing the spread of tuberculosis became the motivation for some of the first large-scale public health campaigns. -
Typhiod Fever
The first case of Typhoid was in 1892. No one knows who the patient was. -
Typhoid Fever
Georg Gaffky was a pathologist that confirmed this link, naming the bacillus Eberthella typhi, which is known today as Salmonella enterica. The first effective vaccine for typhoid was developed by Almroth Edward Wright and was introduced for military use in 1896. -
Yellow Fever
On August 27, 1900, Carroll allowed an infected mosquito to feed on him. He developed a severe case of yellow fever but helped his colleague, Walter Reed, prove that mosquitoes transmitted the feared disease.