What were some of the diseases brought by settlers to Native American lands in the 1800s?

Question

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Answer 1

small pox....hehehe take that you savages!

Answer 2

Small pox, measles, and syphilis. Actually many of these diseases were given to Native people who lived on the coast where the first Europeans were and taken farther inland by those native peoples. Native Americans in the middle of the country died of European diseases without ever having seen a European. Native Americans traded with each other and the diseases were passed on during trade.

Native Americans didn't have an immunity to the European diseases, never having encountered them before.

The spread of disease killing off the population helped the Europeans when they wanted to move farther inland. In many places there had been a large population of native peoples who were dead by the time the Europeans moved inland, so there was less native resistance.

Answer 3

There are also questions of which were already present, and maybe sent back to Europe. There's a good likelihood that plague and similar diseases were already present in southwestern North America. Archaeological evidence suggests syphilis likely had new world origins.

Viruses that one group was adapted to may have caused problems to the other group, just as today. New worlders had been long been fermenting alcoholic beverages, so forget about alcohol.

That about leaves mainly smallpox and gonorrhea as a swap - but wait, you said 19th century.

1800s. Stuff from central Europe? Diseases not already present in the new world by then? I can't think of anything offhand.

Answer 4

Columbus brought Small Pox. The whipped out the natives of the tiny islands in the Caribbean where he first landed.

Answer 5

In the 1800s were the measles and smallpox epidemics, dipheteria. Cholera brought by the gold rush minors.

The mayor spread was the smallpox epidemic, though there were way more deseases and epidemics before and after the 1800s.

Answer 6

Smallpox is one of the diseases as was typhus measles, influenza, rabies, bubonic plague, yellow fever and whooping cough. Smallpox was especially bad as in later years blankets were gifted to the Native Americans by individuals who had taken them from Smallpox infected people and in this manner they wiped out whole populations.

Answer 7

When people of both European and African descent began to populate the US, they brought an arsenal of diseases with them, especially smallpox, but other deadly plagues, including typhus, measles, influenza, bubonic plague, mumps, yellow fever, and whooping cough. The settlers also spread syphilis.

Answer 8

Smallpox
Syphyllis
Viruses

Answer 9

Tuberculosis, Small pox, Chicken pox, Typhoid fever, Dyptheria come to mind. I'm sure there were more.

Answer 10

Influenza
Small pox
Syphilis
Diptheria
Bubonice plague
Rabies
Typhus
Measles
Mumps
Whooping cough
Yellow vomit
Yellow fever
Black fever

Answer 11

Athrax from infected sheep