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What sickness brought by European explorers spread quickly and infected many native Americans?
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∙ 9y ago
One of the forms of sickness that were spread by European explorers to the Native Americans was small pox. This killed many Native Americans. Other diseases brought by the Europeans include Scarlet fever, measles, chicken pox, and diphtheria.
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∙ 15y agoEuropeans brought plants and animals to the New World that America had never seen. This includes viruses and other biological organisms. The new animals brought to America upset the ecology of the area. The people living in the Americas did not have resistance to many of the "germs" brought by the Europeans. Biologically, the Indians had not been exposed to measles, smallpox, whooping cough, chicken pox, and influenza. The effect of these diseases on the Americans was catastrophic. Bacteria and viruses killed more Native Americans than did Spanish swords. The Indians also gave to the Europeans, venereal disease. Medical historians disagree on the origins of syphilis, but it was first identified by physicians in 1493, in Cadiz, Spain, the port which Columbus returned to after his first voyage.
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∙ 9y agoNative Americans dies of several diseases brought by Europeans like small pox, malaria, measles. Europeans had found treatment and vaccines for these diseases but Native Americans were never exposed to such diseases and they did not have any vaccine or treatment for these illnesses.
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∙ 12y agowithout realizing it they spraed smallpox, diphtheria, measles, mumps, and typus to the Americas. Some diseases also came from the Americas to Europe.
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∙ 13y agoSmallpox : its a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever,weakness and skin erupyion, with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars.
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∙ 12y agoThe Indians were ravaged by the smallpox virus. However, their revenge was accomplished by afflicting the Old World with syphilis.
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∙ 14y agoI know you are looking for smallpox, but that was but one disease. There were also measles, chickenpox, influenza, to name but a few.
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What is the sickness brought by European explorers that spread quickly infected many Native Americans?
small pox and Contagious Disease :)
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What is the sickness brought by European explorers that spread quickly infected many Native Americans?
small pox and Contagious Disease :)
How did the explorers affect the native Americans?
it caused sickness from the explorers
What was the name for the sickness brought by the European explorers?
Smallpox.
What is the sickness brought by European explorers that spread quickly and infected many native Americans?
small pox and Contagious Disease :)
What sickness brought by euorpean explorers spread quickly and killed many native Americans?
Spanish brought small pox
What is a renown European sickness?
I think this refers to small pox that the European travelers broght when visiting other contries. this is very simmilar to the epidemic that native Americans suffered in the amaricans when settlers came over.
What sickness did early explorers get?
Early explorers from Europe were subject to mainly scurvy, because of the lack of vitamin c in their diet(fresh fruits)
How is the sleeping sickness contracted on a horse?
Sleeping sickness (Eastern Equine Encephalitis) is spread by biting insects that have fed off an infected animal.
What are the blood sucking insects that infected people and animals with sleeping sickness?
Mother-in-laws.
What sickness inflicted the native Americans by Europeans?
smallpox
What is the cause of sleeping sickness and how do people become infected by the disease?
testee fly causes it if you are bitten from it
What disease does the tsetse fly give?
The tsetse fly carries the agent for trypanosamiasis, also known as African sleeping sickness.
