传染病的文化史

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  2021-07-27
  The history of infectious disease in the Americas was quite different from that of Europe, primarily because the Americas remained essentially isolated from the [p. 16] people, pathogens, and pests of Europe, Asia, and Africa until the fifteenth century. Epidemiologists suggest that the people of the New World did not experience the epidemic disease found in Europe, at least in part, because of the absence of the domesticated herd animals that were the source of many of the pathogens that had adapted to humans.[…] The consequences of contact between Europeans and the Aztec, Maya, and Inca civilisations were especially dramatic, primarily because Mexico and Peru had the highest population densities and the most extensive trade and transport networks in the Americas. Such factors provided i...