How does civilization lead to epidimecs?

Answer 1

Civilization leads to a high population, which leads to less space, which leads to easy transmission of disease.

Answer 2

Civilization is what evolved when people started living in groups larger than family units or large clans. When the only people you interacted with were limited to the small group, you were immune to all the diseases that you were likely to encounter.

With civilization and permanence of living places, sewage became a problem and diseases were easily spread through improper (according to today's standards) removal of human waste.

Ain't it the sh*ts?

Answer 3

I rather think war leads to epidemics, and war is hardly civilized. War weakens a population through famine, making them susceptible to what is in the environment that happens to mutate to prey upon humans.
Take the black death: From wars and famines in central Asia that left bubonic plague rats feeding on human corpses in proximity to human armies and the villages that they preyed on, the mutated disease was carried throughout the world.
Extreme poverty, a violence against the poor, will also lead to epidemics through exposure to typhoid in bad water, tuberculosis in miserable living conditions, and the like.
So whether the violence of outright as in war or institutionalized as in repression that is what leads to epidemics.
Consider the USA and Europe in the past half century, peace and prosperity have led to burgeoning populations without epidemics. Why? An absence of violence against the poor.

Answer 4

Civilization= more people in a smaller area (cities vs. rural)

More people in a smaller area= easier for germs to spread.

Think about it- most kids are healthy over the summer vacation, but start getting colds and whatnot when they go back to school. It's the same thing on a smaller scale: during summer, you're exposed primarily to your family's germs (for which you have some immunity), but once you're in a building with lots of other kids with germs, WHAMMO! You're sniffling and coughing and spreading the infection.

Answer 5

apart from bringing people closer together and letting disease vectors like rats and mosies have a better chance of either picking up or passing on infection,such as malaria, there is also the increase in commerce from distant lands where new disease dwell such as linen fron europe and mid east carrying plague fleas to england,or sex trade bringing HIV and syphillus to western europe.

Answer 6

In two major ways ...

(1) by bringing large numbers of people into close proximity, so that infectious organisms can be passed more easily.

(2) by fostering the proliferation of disease-carrying species, like rodents.

Answer 7

Diseases that one culture is immune to (the Europeans and smallpox) devastate the new culture they meet (the native tribes of North and South America)