Cause Of Disease Essay

According to Aberth, "disease is a constant force in human history that has had much more than just demographic repercussions"(Aberth 2007, Pg.X). It has created fear, awareness, pain and frustration for the lack of knowledge of it cause. In 1500 through the 20th century, the primary reasons for disease to spread so effectively are animals, trade routes and colonization/ imperialism. The disease was widely spread through warm climate and the geographic of the world because the virus host bacteria was able to grow and attack the human body.

Disease were widely spread through human and animal contact. During the hunting and gathering era, humans had little contact with animals because the only contact ,they had with animal was capturing and

Aberth quotes Sicilian chronicler saying that the plaque of 1345 was brought by sailors, who (carried the plaque in the marrow of their bones) had landed the Port of Messina on the northeastern tip of the island. The sailors also landed at the major trading ports of Italy and southern France, they did not just trade goods and gain money but also exposed but the disease as well. Historian believe the black plaque of 1349- 1350 originated in central Asia, in Mongol Empire and spread westward along the trade routes to the Crimea on the North coast of black sea. On the Black Sea region was where the plaque came contact with the Europeans. The sailors ' galleys and sailing vessels were loaded up with local products such as grains, alum, slaves and expensive animal fur which contained fleas carrying the bubonic plague ( Aberth 2007, P. 12). Once the humans came contact with the fur, the fleas infected them with the disease and it was spread through family first and the whole society. The disease affected at least 50% or half the population, for example Giovanni Boccaccio reported 100,000 people dead in Florence (Aberth 2007, P.18). The people viewed the disease as the wrath of God, trying to punish the wickedness and sins of the people.( Aberth 2007, P.20). According to "the Scapegoating and Jewish

The major wide spread of disease is trade route because people were sometime trading illegally and their product was not tested before being sold and fleas that were in animal fur containing the virus of different disease would easily spread. Colonization/imperialism created fear to the indigenous people because they were separated from families and their culture was demolished. The missionary found the opportunity to spread Christianity by feeding lies of their God and how the disease is spread because of his wrath of wickedness and sins of the people. The spread of disease was involved in warm climate that will help the development of the virus to grow and attack the immune