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DISEASE IN THE 1600S

• Children were most likely to acquire diseases
• 12% of children died during their first year of life
• A man or woman who was 30 could expect to live to 59
• The average life expectancy was 39 years

TUBERCULOSIS

• Attacks the lungs
• Mycobacteria are in the lungs
• Killed 30,000 from 1647-1657
• Spreads through breathing

TYPHUS

• One cut can allow the bacteria to go inside of you
• Enters the blood stream
• Symtoms are high fever and sores
• Causes by the Rickettsia bacteria
• Has the worst effect on weakened immune systems

MALARIA

• Mosquitos spread the disease
• If untreated, the victim can have a fever, unbearable chills, and vomiting
• Most of the bugs lived in swamps
• Mosquitos transfer their parasitic protozoans to humans and animals

PERTUSSIS (WHOOPING COUGH)

• Bacterial disease
• Loud, belting coughing
• DTaP vaccination helps prevent this disease
• Usually lasts six weeks

DIPHTHERIA

• Effects upper respiratory system
• Symptoms are fever, bluish skin, painful swallowing, and swollen neck
• Spread by physical contact
• The corynebacterium diphtheriae can be detected by a throat culture
• In 1735 it swept through England

SCARLET FEVER

• Infectious
• Spread by breathing
• Common among children
• Symptoms are sore throat, fever, red rash, and a "strawberry tongue"