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How many aboriginals were killed by the smallpox epidemic in the 1700s?
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What was a treatment for smallpox in the 1700s?
You would have to get a vaccine
Which disease brought by Europeans to Australia killed thousands of indigenous people in the late 1700s?
Smallpox was the deadliest disease the Europeans brought to Australia, and it killed over half of the aboriginal population in areas where they were exposed.
What was oxygen used for in the 1700s?
Breathing (sometimes breathing Smallpox)
Common diseases in 1700s?
Smallpox, Yellow Fever, Typhoid, Malaria, and Cholera
What were the main diseass in the 1700s?
The main diseases in the 1700s were Smallpox, Typhus, Typhoid, Dysentery, Scarlet Fever, Influenza, Yellow Fever, Diphtheria, and Malaria.
What effect did European exploration have on Native Americans?
The Europeans carried deadly diseases into America killing most of the native population. The most deadly of these diseases were typhus, measles, Bubonic Plague, malaria, and smallpox. In the early 1700s, smallpox wiped out half the Cherokee. In the early 1800s, it wiped out two-thirds of the Omaha and all the Mandan people. Smallpox killed at least half of the west native population.
What was the occupation of Cotton Mather the leading advocate of inoculations for smallpox in Boston during the 1700s?
minister
What are the 5 most common diseases in the 1700s?
Smallpox, Typhus, Typhoid, Dysentery, Scarlet Fever, Influenza, Yellow Fever, Diphtheria, and Malaria
Is smallpox contagious?
Yes. Smallpox spreads by airborne contamination, meaning that people became infected by inhaling droplets exhaled by an infected person. Fortunately, smallpox has now been successfully eradicated since 1979, and was the first disease for which a vaccine was developed (by Edward Jenner in the 1700s). You are at no risk of catching it.
How Edward Jenner found vaccination?
Observation and deductive reasoning. Smallpox was a scourge during Jenner's time, but he noticed that milkmaids contracted a very mild illness similar to smallpox called "cowpox", from which they recovered easily. He postulated that a tiny bit of the cowpox serum could be injected into a well person, and the mild cowpox might protect them from the deadly smallpox. It worked.
What were diseases in the New World during the 1700s?
Some of the sicknesses in the 16 century (1700-1799) were: Influenza, Whooping Cough, Typhiod, Tuberculosis, Yellow Fever, Black Plague, and Smallpox.
What was interesting that happened in Hawaii in the 1700s?
Captain James Cook was killed there in 1779 during an attempt to take the local king a hostage.
