Disease dates and locations

Variola major

date 1779 - smallpox breaks out in Mexico City 

location Mexico City

Inoculation

1716 - Cotton Manther learns about the practice from his slave

location - Boston, John Adams

Libros de entierros

1779 - Mexico City smallpox out break

location - Mexico City

David Thompson

1787 - winter with the Piegans

York Factory - place he worked at

Saukamappee

1787 - winter with Thompson

Calgary- about where the Piegan camp was located

Comanche

1706 - first colonial records in New Spain

Texas - location of frequent raids + likely where they got smallpox

York Factory

1784- Thompson sails to the Hudson Bay

Tenochtitlan

1520 - cortes retreats from the city

virgin soil

1492

Hispaniola - one of the first places to come into contact with old world disease

Columbian exchange

1492

Hispaniola - first part of the new world to have contact

Marsh Fever

1723 - document of Vicar reasons for non-residence

Romney marsh - marsh in England that had malaria

Romney Marsh

1723 - vicar reasons for non residence

Paleopathology

411 BCE - philiscus

Thasos - philiscus

Treponemal disease

1495

Naples - first epidemic of syphilis recorded after French battle in Naples

Treponema Pallidum Pallidum

1495

Naples - first recorded epidemic of syphilis

Y. Pestis

1348 - start of the Black Death

East Smithfield Cemetery - plague burial

East Smithfield cemetery

1348 - black death

London

P.Falciparum

411 BC

Thasos - Philiscus

Thasos

411 BC - phil

Philiscus

411 BC

Thasos

Phthisis

484 BC - Herodotus

Sardis- Location of story with first mention of Phthisis

Pott’s disease

1300 BC - 1st literary mention of TB, Prime minister with an angular hump

China - Nei-Ching first mention is from China

MYXOMA

1950

Australia