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Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World by Robe
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- Book Title
- Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?
- ISBN
- 9780393332643
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World
- Item Height
- 203mm
- Publisher
- Ww Norton & Co
- Item Width
- 127mm
- Subject
- Science
- Number of Pages
- 260 Pages
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Past--and present--tell us that tropical diseases are as American as the heart attack; yellow fever lived happily for centuries in Philadelphia. Malaria liked it fine in Washington, not to mention in the Carolinas where it took right over. The Ebola virus stopped off in Baltimore, and the Mexican pig tapeworm has settled comfortably among orthodox Jews in Brooklyn. This book starts with the little creatures the first American immigrants brought with them on the long walk from Siberia 50,000 years ago. It moves on to all that unwanted baggage that sailed over with the Spanish, French, and the English and killed native Americans in huge numbers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (The native Americans, it appears, got some revenge by passing syphilis--including Pinta, a feisty strain of syphilis--back to Europe with Columbus's returning sailors.) Nor have the effects of these diseases on people and economics been fully appreciated. Did slavery last so long because Africans were semi-immune to malaria and yellow fever, while Southern whites of all ranks fell in thousands to those diseases? In the final chapters, Robert S. Desowitz takes us through the Good Works of the twentieth century, Kid Rockefeller and the Battling Hookworm, and the rearrival of malaria; and he offers a glimpse into the future with a host of Doomsday bugs and jet-setting viruses that make life, quite literally, a jungle out there.
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Ww Norton & Co
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9780393332643
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Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World
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Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Science
Publication Year
2007
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Textbook
Number of Pages
260 Pages
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203mm
Item Width
127mm
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