Posted on 02/20/2017 6:10:07 PM PST by Rebelbase
One of the worst epidemics in human history, a sixteenth-century pestilence that devastated Mexico’s native population, may have been caused by a deadly form of salmonella from Europe, a pair of studies suggest.
In one study, researchers say they have recovered DNA of the stomach bacterium from burials in Mexico linked to a 1540s epidemic that killed up to 80% of the country's native inhabitants. The team reports its findings in a preprint posted on the bioRxiv server on 8 February1.
(Excerpt) Read more at nature.com ...
... what a killer
(Zuma)
If they didn’t have good medical care (and I think that the Azteks had almost no medical technology), they could very easily die of salmonella poisoning. Diarrhea is a common symptom of salmonella poisoning, and severe diarrhea can be fatal without treatment.
I had lasagna
"The epidemic of cocoliztli from1545 to 1548 killed an estimated 5 million to 15 million people, or up to 80% of the native population of Mexico (Figure 1). In absolute and relative terms the 1545 epidemic was one of the worst demographic catastrophes in human history, approaching even the Black Death of bubonic plague, which killed approximately 25 million in western Europe from 1347 to 1351 or about 50% of the regional population."
"The cocoliztli epidemic from 1576 to 1578 cocoliztli epidemic killed an additional 2 to 2.5 million people, or about 50% of the remaining native population. Newly introduced European and African diseases such as smallpox, measles, and typhus have long been the suspected cause of the population collapse in both 1545 and 1576 because both epidemics preferentially killed native people. But careful reanalysis of the 1545 and 1576 epidemics now indicates that they were probably hemorrhagic fevers, likely caused by an indigenous virus and carried by a rodent host.",/I>
I can attest to that.
Had an “enterovirus of unknown origin” a couple of years ago.
About squirted myself to death. When my son took me to the ER, my BP was 60/40 and I was in acute renal failure.
My brother also got it, but not quite as severe. We had both eaten the same chimichanga lunch special at a local Mex joint.
500 years later Taco Bell keeps a tradition alive...
Try the burritos.
The Aztec were hands down the worst people to ever walk the face of the earth. Cortez was an instrument of divine justice.
+1
Bad burritos?
Bernard Castillo Diaz made 18 references to abundant activities of Sodomites among the elite ruling class that were the relgious priests. I think their population dwindled because the attraction male to male brought down the birth rate, PLUS their obsession to sacrifice their children.... a few die on the hunt of the jaguar, and a few drown in a river, and others warring with neighbors die. YOU need heterosexual couple to keep up the HERD population, they didn;t have this...so they died out...
What do i know, i’m a guy :)
I thought my family just stayed home like it was the flu till they were better.
I guess you’re saying there are treatments for it now?
The only treatment i see is drinking fluids.
Nothing else.
Even now. Odd.
Even if only 40 percent survived, that does not wipe out an entire civilization. I might have to actually read the whole article now :)
Even the article says it would have killed 15 percent who got it back then.
They think other illnesses contributed to the demise of the civilization
Kind of false title.
Wash your hands before you eat!
Lots of parallels to the USA (and much of the world) today.
Homosexuality? Check
Abortion? Check
Pedophilia? Probably.... we need to check on that
As ruthless and cruel as the Spaniards were, they were actually God’s instrument serving judgement on the Aztecs.
In what way?
There’s virtually no way of getting unsanitized, accurate information on an indiginous third world culture on the internet.
They were all peaceful natives living in paradise until the evil white men came along and corrupted them and took advantage of them.
I know they were into human sacrifice and cut the hearts out of living victims.
Does it go beyond that? ( As if that’s not bad enough)
>The Aztec were hands down the worst people to ever walk the face of the earth. Cortez was an instrument of divine justice.
The Mayans and pretty much all the Indian tribes where just as bad. Heck I read a story from an very old Eskimo man who described how they waited till the men went out fishing and then wiped out a rival tribe by gang raping their women to death and murdered the children . Primitives are massively more violent and disgusting than civilized people are.
\ Treatment for salmonella would be electrolytic fluids (like Pedialyte) and for severe cases of diarrhea, intravenous fluids.
I doubt the Aztecs would have known anything about electrolytes, and certainly were not capable of delivering fluids via IV.
yet we are always told how advanced and better than as they were.
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