Summary Of The Arrow Of Disease

As we all know, diseases wiped out most of the populations of Native Americans. Different diseases that were brought in by the Europeans. Germs were the worst weapons that the natives experienced. “The Arrow of Disease” by Jared Diamond explains how the Europeans had an advantage over the Indians with diseases brought upon them. Epidemic diseases spread through a nation and almost erased an entire existence of a group of people but it didn’t affect the Old World. The Old World was left untouched and its people were left well and healthy. Europeans settlement in the Americas caused the Indian population to decrease. As the native population decrease, the European’s population increased. This issue occurred because as the Indians were suffering from the diseases that the settlers brought them, the Europeans were not affected. The Indians were exposed to germs that they didn’t have the genetic resistance for. Smallpox, measles, influenza, and many more diseases were the Indians’ main enemy. They couldn’t
Its stems from a animal and travels through other animals before it reaches humans. Animals and human interactions cause diseases to spread through the human population. Bugs are one of the main animals that carry microbes looking for a host to infect. Once a bug or insect finds its new host, they die after they infect them, therefore, the new host has to carry the microbe in them and they feel the affects. Sometimes, a person with a specific microbe can affect many others around them. When a person is infected they can either be treated or die from the diseases. Back in the days treatments for most diseases were not invented so many people died from sickness. That’s what happened with the Indians. When they were exposed to the diseases from the Old World, they didn’t have the proper treatment to take care of themselves and also they didn’t have any idea of what to do. They were not used to microbes that were in their body