Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria? Free

Author: Robert S. Desowitz
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0393040844
Category: Medical

Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World

An instructive, often humorous, chronicle of how the worms and germs of the tropical world have made and are making their way north. Download Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria? medical books for free.
We live in a fool's paradise, comforted, despite all evidence to the contrary, that we are insulated from the scourging microbial and parasitic diseases of the tropics. Yet past and present history reveals that many of the "classic" tropical diseases are, in reality, temperate too yellow fever in Philadelphia, the Ebola virus in Maryland and Virginia, and the Mexican pig tapeworm in Brooklyn. Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria? traces the origin of these extraordinary, but by no means isolated, cases. Did the crew of the Santa Maria bring syphilis (Pinta) back from the New World? Did Charles Darwin suffer a protracted Get Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria? our bestseller medical books.

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