In epidemiology, a virgin soil epidemic is an epidemic in which populations that previously were in isolation from a pathogen are immunologically unprepared...

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recorded. A virgin soil epidemic, it spread rapidly across a population which had no prior immunity to the disease. The origin of the epidemic is unknown...

Other terms coined included 'Neo-Europes'[citation needed] and 'virgin soil epidemic'. Crosby was also interested in the history of science and technology...

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percent in these areas. This was followed by devastating impacts of virgin soil epidemics such as smallpox, influenza, scarlet fever and others to which the...

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the Tarrantine (modern-day Mi'kmaq) people beginning in 1615. A virgin soil epidemic due to an introduced European disease ravaged the populations of...

Native American disease and epidemics Seasoning (colonialism) Timeline of European imperialism Triangular trade Virgin soil epidemic McNeill, J. R.; Sampaolo...

than smallpox; that it can in fact be deadly, particularly so in a virgin soil epidemic (a term only introduced to medicine in the 1970s); and that it is...

ISSN 0093-0415. PMC 1071659. PMID 11788545. Crosby, Alfred W. (1976), "Virgin Soil Epidemics as a Factor in the Aboriginal Depopulation in America", The William...

had traded heavily with the French and the disease was likely a virgin soil epidemic. Alfred Crosby has estimated population losses to be as high as 90...

in some vertebrates. Immunity (medical) Seroconversion Serostatus Virgin soil epidemic Murphy, Kenneth; Weaver, Casey (2017). Janeway's Immunology (9th ed...

of American Linguistics 1 (1917): 56–57. See Alfred W. Crosby, "Virgin Soil Epidemics as a Factor in the Aboriginal Depopulation in America," William...

at the time of contact in the early 1600s, who were decimated by virgin soil epidemics especially in 1617–1619, after which fewer than 50 indigenous individuals...

Masconomet, but the Agawam would experience severe population loss from virgin soil epidemics, especially in 1617–1619, killing an estimated 50–75% of the indigenous...

Americas differed in that multiple pathogens caused multiple waves of virgin soil epidemics over more than a century. Those who survived influenza, may later...

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the original on March 28, 2022. Crosby, Alfred W. (April 1976). "Virgin Soil Epidemics as a Factor in the Aboriginal Depopulation in America". William...

Organization and management of preventive measures against pandemics Virgin soil epidemic – Worse effects of disease to populations with no prior exposure...

infectious diseases which would decimate native populations in virgin soil epidemics, leaving the area largely uncontested upon the arrival of large...

English settlers in the seventeenth century was a great disruption. Virgin soil epidemics such as smallpox, leptospirosis, influenza, scarlet fever and measles...

ostler. ISSN 0161-6463. Recent scholars, however, have shown that virgin soil epidemics were far less universal and had less deadly consequences than has...

lands traditionally inhabited only part of the year, devastating virgin soil epidemics, and English colonial policy pushed native people in to Praying...

known as sachems. In the early 1600s, European colonizers caused virgin soil epidemics such as smallpox, measles, influenza, and perhaps leptospirosis...

Charlestown or at Agawam, though there is documentation of devastating virgin soil epidemics among indigenous people in the area around 1617 and again in 1633...

Antiquarian Society (Oct 1949) 59#2 pp 275-292. online Alfred W. Crosby, "Virgin soil epidemics as a factor in the aboriginal depopulation in America." William...

infectious diseases which would decimate native populations in virgin soil epidemics, leaving the area uncontested upon the arrival of large groups of...

than a generation had passed from settlement and the effects of virgin soil epidemics had significantly decreased native populations in the area. English...

diseases which would decimate native populations in virgin soil epidemics, including a smallpox epidemic which in 1633 killed Nanepashemet's sons, sachems...