Cures for diseases on slave ships?

Answer 1

Well of course there was the usual gangrene, then leprosy, flux- a sort of flu, dysentery and extreme seasickness. Many slaves simply threw themselves off the sides of the ships in order to escape, or killed each other, to escape from the dreadful illnesses that stalked the Africans. Simple things, like colds, also wiped them out, their immune systems had never coped with them before.

Answer 2

Yes, their descendants, today, have sickle cell. It stands to reason that the original slaves must have had sickle cell anemia because it is a genetic trait and not a contagious disease.

People who carry the trait for sickle cell have a higher survival rate in areas where malaria is present than those without it. The slave ships from Africa carried people from those areas.

Answer 3

First. Only healthy people were purchased. The slaves received very little treatment for disease on the trip across the ocean. Sick slaves would not sell. Ships carried turpentine and rum. If slaves did not act like they were responding to such ingredients, they would be thrown overboard. The people operating slave ships were not kind.

Answer 4

slaves got diseases like smallpox and dysentery

Answer 5

They had many stomach bugs and they also got scurvey from not eating vegetables or fruit

Answer 6

Cholera, dysentery, diarrhea, smallpox, and scurvy (from malnutrition).

Answer 7

small pox and dysentery are the diseases

Answer 8

malaria