Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World Book

Name: Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperat
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Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World
Written by author Robert S. Desowitz
Published by Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., September 2007
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, the French, and the English and killed n

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Preface 9
Introduction. Tropical Diseases - As Anglo-American as the Heart Attack 11
Ch. 1 Coming to the Americas: 50,000 B.C. to 1492 A.D. - The Humans 17
Ch. 2 Coming to the Americas: 50,000 B.C. to 1492 A.D. - The Worms and Germs 26
Ch. 3 Who gave Pinta to the Santa Maria? 1492 to 1635 A.D. 51
Ch. 4 Ten Little Indians and Then There Was One: 1492 to 1635 A.D. 63
Ch. 5 Coming to America 1638 to 1865: From Africa on the Slave Ship Named Desire 83
Ch. 6 The Germ's Warfare Discovered: 1650 to 1865 110
Ch. 7 Yellow Jack and the Cuban Crisis: 1885 to 1900 120
Ch. 8 Great Works 1900 to 1925: Kid Rockefeller and the Battling Hookworm 148
Ch. 9 Great Works 1915 to 1945: The Fever Is Broken 173
Ch. 10 Great Expectations 1900 to 1945: Malaria - Death at Our Doorstep 192
Ch. 11 Merrie Malarious Olde England: Before 1930 210
Ch. 12 Paradise Lost 1945 to 1996 220
Ch. 13 The Twenty-first Century 235
Index 345

Title: Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World

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Publication Date: September 2007

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Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?

How culture, climate and travel have served as vectors for communicable diseases. Some surprises, but mostly recap of the biggest killers with an odd, occasional fictional personalization to the narrative.

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