How do diseases originate??!
Question: How do diseases originate!?!?
Ok, I understand some diseases are spread by cough, saliva, touch sex whatever!.!.!.!.!.but how do they originate!?!? I mean who had the first case of measles, leporarcy, herpes etc!?!?!?!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
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Bacteria, viruses, fungi, etc!., all the things that can make you sick, have been around long before humans were!. Some scientists believe they were among the first origins of life on this planet!. Throughout history, as soon as humans had invented written languages, diseases have been writen about and recorded throughout time for thousands of years!. So, nobody can really answer where they originated from, but they did originate on this planet billions of years ago!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Once upon a time chimpanzees were the only mammal with STD's!.!. along came a lonely lumberjack and made a very close friend!.!. this was touched and that was tasted , the rest is history!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
God gave men diseases so that free will can be kept in control!.!.!.!.if there were no HIV imagine the extent of sexual intercourse!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Maybe it's easier to ask about the individual greebees--the bacteria, viruses, etc!., than it is about the people who first had them--because the thing is that these things are so small and quick to reproduce that they can mutate and evolve very rapidly
[by the way, another support of the theory of evolution--which is now actually considered fact]!.
BUT!. I CAN tell you who is believed to have had the 1st case of the "Spanish" flu (a misnomer) of 1918-19!. This was the deadly "Great Flu Epidemic" that killed millions of people worldwide with almost Ebola-like symptoms--accounts say that 'people could wake up healthy and be dead by that evening!.' [My grandfather died of it when my father, now 93, was 4 yo!.] They learned about 5 years ago that this flu is actually the same "Bird Flu"--H5N1--that they keep talking about now!.
IT WAS AN American from Kentucky--from a farm (people, swine and fowl in close quarters) who was ill and carrying the disease, who showed up for duty during WWI and spread it to other soldiers on the base!. As people moved onto and off of the base, it spread to Philadelphia among other places!. But Philly was an especially crowded city back then because women and non-soldiers were sleeping in shifts in small quarters to build ships for the war effort!. There are photos of mass burials of the dead in Philly in 1918 that are shocking to see!.
Military bases were also overcrowded, exceeding their allowed capacities (which had been set by some amazing American scientists from Johns Hopkins)!. Thus the H5N1 flu, which was extremely contagious, spread like wildfire!.
And it didn't stop here!. Our American troops carried the flu to Europe on our troop ships with devastating results for our allies!. Many US soldiers died en route as well!. Our president was forewarned this would happen but sent our soldiers anyway, saying 'it is just as noble for a soldier to die in such a way, from a disease on a ship while in transit, as it is for him to die on the battlefield (or words to that effect)!.' [As it happened, the president eventually got the flu himself!. At least one of his aides died from it at the same time--and although the president survived for a few months, he became immediately somewhat feeble-minded after being stricken with the flu and to everyone's astonishment caved in to the Treaty of Versailles, which laid the seeds for WWII!. NO, the president did NOT die from 'just a stroke,' as historians cast it!. They cast it wrong and stand corrected]!.
However, going back--in 1918-19 the US and European countries didn't want the Germans to know our troops were weak from illness, so news was censored (although the local obituaries told the story and struck fear in people)!. Spanish newspapers, however, since Spain was neutral in the war, spoke openly about their own flu epidemic!. Hence, people thought the flu originated in Spain and it became known as the Spanish flu!.
The "Spanish" flu had 3 waves, each slightly weaker in severity!. But it cycled back to the US from Europe and the 3rd wave caused the death of my 31 yo Lutheran minister grandfather in Missouri in 1919!.
That's ANOTHER thing about the H5N1 Flu!. Instead of taking the Very Old and the Very Young, as most flus do, H5N1 in 1918-19 headed for the immune system!. So the people who were the 'healthiest'--those in the 20-40 age group--were the most likely to die!.
But I DIGRESS!. The 1st person to have the H5N1 virus in its 1918 form was a new recruit from Kentucky!. Wars and disease, however, go hand in hand throughout history!.
But BE CONCERNED!. If H5N1 adapts itself to humans and becomes an epidemic, it might (or might not) be as deadly as the epidemic of 1918-19!. Or it might be worse!. After all, with air travel and all!? It's a smaller world!. And you're contagious before you even know you're ill!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
[by the way, another support of the theory of evolution--which is now actually considered fact]!.
BUT!. I CAN tell you who is believed to have had the 1st case of the "Spanish" flu (a misnomer) of 1918-19!. This was the deadly "Great Flu Epidemic" that killed millions of people worldwide with almost Ebola-like symptoms--accounts say that 'people could wake up healthy and be dead by that evening!.' [My grandfather died of it when my father, now 93, was 4 yo!.] They learned about 5 years ago that this flu is actually the same "Bird Flu"--H5N1--that they keep talking about now!.
IT WAS AN American from Kentucky--from a farm (people, swine and fowl in close quarters) who was ill and carrying the disease, who showed up for duty during WWI and spread it to other soldiers on the base!. As people moved onto and off of the base, it spread to Philadelphia among other places!. But Philly was an especially crowded city back then because women and non-soldiers were sleeping in shifts in small quarters to build ships for the war effort!. There are photos of mass burials of the dead in Philly in 1918 that are shocking to see!.
Military bases were also overcrowded, exceeding their allowed capacities (which had been set by some amazing American scientists from Johns Hopkins)!. Thus the H5N1 flu, which was extremely contagious, spread like wildfire!.
And it didn't stop here!. Our American troops carried the flu to Europe on our troop ships with devastating results for our allies!. Many US soldiers died en route as well!. Our president was forewarned this would happen but sent our soldiers anyway, saying 'it is just as noble for a soldier to die in such a way, from a disease on a ship while in transit, as it is for him to die on the battlefield (or words to that effect)!.' [As it happened, the president eventually got the flu himself!. At least one of his aides died from it at the same time--and although the president survived for a few months, he became immediately somewhat feeble-minded after being stricken with the flu and to everyone's astonishment caved in to the Treaty of Versailles, which laid the seeds for WWII!. NO, the president did NOT die from 'just a stroke,' as historians cast it!. They cast it wrong and stand corrected]!.
However, going back--in 1918-19 the US and European countries didn't want the Germans to know our troops were weak from illness, so news was censored (although the local obituaries told the story and struck fear in people)!. Spanish newspapers, however, since Spain was neutral in the war, spoke openly about their own flu epidemic!. Hence, people thought the flu originated in Spain and it became known as the Spanish flu!.
The "Spanish" flu had 3 waves, each slightly weaker in severity!. But it cycled back to the US from Europe and the 3rd wave caused the death of my 31 yo Lutheran minister grandfather in Missouri in 1919!.
That's ANOTHER thing about the H5N1 Flu!. Instead of taking the Very Old and the Very Young, as most flus do, H5N1 in 1918-19 headed for the immune system!. So the people who were the 'healthiest'--those in the 20-40 age group--were the most likely to die!.
But I DIGRESS!. The 1st person to have the H5N1 virus in its 1918 form was a new recruit from Kentucky!. Wars and disease, however, go hand in hand throughout history!.
But BE CONCERNED!. If H5N1 adapts itself to humans and becomes an epidemic, it might (or might not) be as deadly as the epidemic of 1918-19!. Or it might be worse!. After all, with air travel and all!? It's a smaller world!. And you're contagious before you even know you're ill!.Www@Answer-Health@Com