Stargazer Posted March 11, 2017 Posted March 11, 2017 On 3/8/2017 at 4:13 PM, Johnnie Cake said: Actually in the Columbus's party case...Transmission was almost instant and the impact catastrophic for the native populations. Good book on this subject is 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus On 3/8/2017 at 4:19 PM, pogi said: That is human to human transmission of an already mutated bug. In the 1491 book, which I have read several times, it wasn't only human-to-human. One Spanish expedition which explored up the Mississippi carried with it pig herds as a mobile meat locker, and these apparently had escapees which spread disease bugs to natives who had never seen Europeans. 1
pogi Posted March 11, 2017 Posted March 11, 2017 1 hour ago, Stargazer said: In the 1491 book, which I have read several times, it wasn't only human-to-human. One Spanish expedition which explored up the Mississippi carried with it pig herds as a mobile meat locker, and these apparently had escapees which spread disease bugs to natives who had never seen Europeans. Right, but those infected pigs would have carried already mutated pathogens capable of human to human transmission. Otherwise there would not have been a serious disease burden among the natives.
Stargazer Posted March 12, 2017 Posted March 12, 2017 4 hours ago, pogi said: Right, but those infected pigs would have carried already mutated pathogens capable of human to human transmission. Otherwise there would not have been a serious disease burden among the natives. Of course. Just trying to be precise. 1
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