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    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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    imperialism Millenarianism in colonial societies Virgin soil epidemic Native American disease and epidemics History of smallpox in Mexico Skaarup 2015, p...
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  • Humoral immunity Immunology Inoculation Premunity Vaccine-naive Virgin soil epidemic "Molecules, cells, and tissues of immunity". Immunology Guidebook:...
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  • 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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  • 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...
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    Indigenous Issues Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization Virgin soil epidemic Also known as First peoples, First nations, Aboriginal peoples, Native...
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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...
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  • Native American disease and epidemics Seasoning (colonialism) Timeline of European imperialism Triangular trade Virgin soil epidemic McNeill, J. R.; Sampaolo...
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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...
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  • in some vertebrates. Immunity (medical) Seroconversion Serostatus Virgin soil epidemic Murphy, Kenneth; Weaver, Casey (2017). Janeway's Immunology (9th ed...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    of American Linguistics 1 (1917): 56–57. See Alfred W. Crosby, "Virgin Soil Epidemics as a Factor in the Aboriginal Depopulation in America," William...
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  • risk Infectious disease List of epidemics Pandemic Rodentology Transmission (medicine) Tropical disease Virgin soil epidemic Wildlife smuggling and zoonoses...
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    Organization and management of preventive measures against pandemics Virgin soil epidemic – Worse effects of disease to populations with no prior exposure...
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    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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    English settlers in the seventeenth century was a great disruption. Virgin soil epidemics such as smallpox, leptospirosis, influenza, scarlet fever and measles...
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    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...
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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...
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    than a generation had passed from settlement and the effects of virgin soil epidemics had significantly decreased native populations in the area. English...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • Anderson, "Blood, Fire, and ‘Baptism.’" 143. Alfred W. Crosby. "Virgin Soil Epidemics as a Factor in the Aboriginal Depopulation in America." The William...
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    known as sachems. In the early 1600s, European colonizers caused virgin soil epidemics such as smallpox, measles, influenza, and perhaps leptospirosis...
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    doi:10.2307/483399. JSTOR 483399. Crosby, Alfred W. (1976-01-01). "Virgin Soil Epidemics as a Factor in the Aboriginal Depopulation in America". The William...
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    infectious diseases which would decimate native populations in virgin soil epidemics, leaving the area largely uncontested upon the arrival of large...
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    1634 lists "Matampan" as the Massachusett name for Dorchester. Virgin soil epidemics ravaged the Massachusett in the early 1600s, with smallpox killing...
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    at the mouth of the Bass River. During the early contact period, virgin soil epidemics ravaged native populations, reducing the indigenous population within...
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