Why wasnt there so many illnesses back in the days?!


Question: like aids in the wild west or in the barbaric days for sure they was having unprotected sex and had more than one partner ??????????????????


Answers: like aids in the wild west or in the barbaric days for sure they was having unprotected sex and had more than one partner ??????????????????

The diseases that we have today were present back then too. The difference is there was no testing for them, the only way you could know if you had a disease was with well established advanced symptoms proper of that disease. ie. Syphilis all over your body ....nearly impossible to miss. But diseases like AIDS that properly do not have symptoms were impossible to diagnose. Say you had AIDS 2000 years ago...your immune system would be gone and you would get a pneumonia from a bug that you should have killed normally with good defenses. For those people the only thing they could know is that you died from pneumonia. There was no way they could determine your immune system was gone and more difficult to even detect the HIV virus in your blood. We could not even do this 50 yrs ago.

There were plenty of diseases then. The plague. Polio. Tuberculosis.

There were just as many diseases back then, there was just a lack of diagnoses.

Viral and bacterial mutation.

Also, back then people didn't know what was wrong with them. We still don't know where syphilis started it was either brought over by Columbus or was already in the new world with the Native Americans. You just don't learn about that kind of stuff in Health class. These diseases have been around for much longer than we know. It takes a while for an epidemic to be defined.

Just use a condom...is it worth your life just to possibly have slightly better sex?

Oh it was it was just not documented like it is now. Plus people probably did not know what it was. I used to work in the hospital and this is something I had to study in school.

Diseases mutate. When you refer to those bygone days, don't forget that life expectancy was about half what it is now. Also, that when venereal diseases were diagnosed, before there were any meaningful cures, the carriers were often forbidden to marry, which of course does not prevent promiscuity, but did have the effect of isolating possible sources in a society where people actually cared about having a decent life.

My brother got polio in the last major epidemic in California, fortunately, a light case...he has had a normal life. But you better believe my mom had my sister and me in the doctor's office for the shot about an hour after it was announced their was a vaccine. These days, people think it is their right to run the risk of spreading diseases that were once thought to be wiped out.

The majority of medical problems these days are directly because of the food we eat now. The fast food and packaged food contain additives to make them taste better and stay fresh longer. Even fresh fruit and vegetables have been sprayed with chemicals to enhance color and keep them fresh longer, not counting the insecticides used in the fields. Animals eat the grain sprayed with insecticides and also are given growth hormones. If people ate what was eaten in the 18th century, doctors would be out of business (this quote is from my NUTRITION book that is issued at my school). Medication used today has more side effects that damage the organs-more medication to fix the damage/more side effects, etc.
Many people died from STD's "back in the day". It would have been a painful death. There was not so much traveling about back then so most diseases were kept in the area where they originated.





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