EARLY HISTORY OF INFECTIOUS 1 DISEASE

Jones and Bartlett Publishers. NOT FOR SALE OR DISTRIBUTION. CHAPTER ONE. EARLY HISTORY OF INFECTIOUS 1. DISEASE . Kenrad E. Nelson, Carolyn F. Williams Epidemics of INFECTIOUS diseases have been documented throughout HISTORY . In ancient Greece and Egypt accounts describe epidemics of smallpox, leprosy, tuberculosis, meningococcal infections , and The morbidity and mortality of INFECTIOUS diseases profoundly shaped politics, commerce, and culture. In epidemics, none were spared. Smallpox likely disfigured and killed Ramses V in 1157 BCE, although his mummy has a significant head wound as At times political upheavals exasperated the spread of DISEASE . The Spartan wars caused massive dislocation of Greeks into Athens triggering the Athens epidemic of 430 427 BCE that killed up to one half of the population of ancient Thucydides' vivid descriptions of this epidemic make clear its political and cultural impact, as well as the clinical details of the Several modern epidemiologists have hypothesized on the causative agent.

Early History of Infectious Disease R1 Treatment), he proposed the revolutionary theory that infectious diseases were transmitted from person to person by minute invisible particles.12,24 Fracastoro conceived of the idea that infections were spread from person to

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