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A New Clue to the Mystery Disease That Once Killed Most of Mexico
The Atlantic ^
| January 15, 2018
| Sarah Zang
Posted on 01/16/2018 6:08:19 AM PST by C19fan
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posted on
01/16/2018 6:08:19 AM PST
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C19fan
To: C19fan
Donald Trump’s great, great, great, great, great grandfather was the cause. Both times.
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posted on
01/16/2018 6:13:06 AM PST
by
blackdog
To: C19fan
Answer from testing of teeth from 11 victims: Salmonella enterica. The bacteria that causes paratyphoid fever.
This was in the decades after Hernán Cortés invaded Mexico in the 1500s.
To: blackdog
Lack of government funding.
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posted on
01/16/2018 6:22:53 AM PST
by
Eccl 10:2
(Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
To: C19fan
Why does the world blame Americans for genocide when it was clearly the Spaniards!
To: FreedomOfExpression
But Europeans are the cause of all bad things. Every time.
//sarcasm
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posted on
01/16/2018 6:25:04 AM PST
by
Vermont Lt
(Burn. It. Down.)
To: C19fan
Climate change.....................
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posted on
01/16/2018 6:25:18 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: C19fan
Paratyphoid fever spreads through food or water contaminated with the feces of a sick person. So you might be a "shithole" country if your people eat or drink food or water contaminated with feces.
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posted on
01/16/2018 6:26:15 AM PST
by
libertylover
(Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
To: C19fan
Paratyphoid fever spreads through food or water contaminated with the feces of a sick person. Today, it usually breaks out when people live in poor, crowded conditions. Its possible that the Spanish, in addition to bringing the bacteria, relocated people and instituted agricultural practices that exacerbated its spread. It is also "possible" that the existing culture and agricultural practices of the native peoples served to exacerbate the spread of the virus - assuming this particular virus is even the culprit.
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posted on
01/16/2018 6:36:11 AM PST
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: WayneS
It is bacterial, not viral.
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
It may be bacterial, but surely seems like it went viral.......
To: C19fan
European colonization is always the implied causation but are there any accounts that would lend credence to the notion of Europeans being somehow immune or less affected by this than the native population(s)? Was salmonella not present in the Americas prior to Spanish colonization?
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Oops! Thanks for the correction. After substituting “bacteria” for “virus”, I stand by the remainder of my post.
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posted on
01/16/2018 6:53:55 AM PST
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: Eccl 10:2
Absence of global warming.
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posted on
01/16/2018 7:04:00 AM PST
by
blackdog
To: WayneS
You are correct. From wikipedia:
Factors outside the household, such as unclean food from street vendors and flooding, help distribute the disease from person to person.[11] Because of poverty and poor hygiene and insanitary conditions, the disease is more common in less-industrialized countries, principally owing to the problem of unsafe drinking water, inadequate sewage disposal, and flooding.[15] Occasionally causing epidemics, paratyphoid fever is found in large parts of Asia, Africa, Central and South America. Many of those infected get the disease in Asian countries. About 16 million cases occur a year, which result in about 25,000 deaths worldwide.[16]
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; pax_et_bonum; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Decades ago, my Latin American history teacher mentioned the boom-crash population cycle in Precolumbian America, and at that time overcrowding (which fits) was the best guess. Thanks C19fan.
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posted on
01/16/2018 7:27:40 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
The very definition of a “shithole”.
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posted on
01/16/2018 7:29:06 AM PST
by
Noumenon
(It isn't racist if it's true, is it?)
To: Noumenon
Im surprised it wasnt good old fashioned Cholera.
L
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posted on
01/16/2018 7:33:47 AM PST
by
Lurker
(President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
To: C19fan; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ...
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the Bring Out Your Dead ping list (formerly the Ebola ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the Bring Out Your Dead threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
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posted on
01/16/2018 7:36:07 AM PST
by
null and void
( The Martians fought global warming, all the plants died and the surface water froze solid....)
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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posted on
01/16/2018 7:38:27 AM PST
by
castlebrew
(Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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