Lecture 4 Notes (Part 2)

Question 1

What did Thucydides make connections between?

Answer 1

Population density and transmissible diseases

Question 2

What did Thucydides say about population density?

Answer 2

That diseases were more intense in the city compared to the country side

Question 3

Who was more likely to get the disease?

Answer 3

People who interacted with birds and animals

- domesticated animals

Question 4

What did Thucydides say about zoonosis?

Answer 4

That birds and animals either abstained from touching human bodies or died of tasting their corpses

Question 5

What did Pericles die from?

Answer 5

The plague

Question 6

What were physicians and priests take on the plague? (2)

Answer 6

1. Physicians = didnt have the knowledge to treat people so they were unable to help them
2. Priests did not provide salvation

Question 7

What doe Lucetius believe disease is transported through?

Answer 7

Through clouds of pestilence

Question 8

How did people in the present test for diseases from the past? (3)

Answer 8

1. Scraped DNA off of ancient teeth
2. Ran PCR primer test
3. Compared unknown findings to known disease

Question 9

What are 3 symptoms of typhoid fever?

Answer 9

1. Fever
2. Rash
3. Diarrhea

Question 10

Have Papgrikorakis et al. provided strong evidence from the tooth experiment?

Answer 10

yes they did
- because they took known samples of DNA and ran them through a gel to have a reference line to then compared their findings to the PCR to confirm their hypothesis

Question 11

What was a key symptom of the plague for Boccacio?

Answer 11

Bubo (gavaccioli) of variable sizes spreading over the body

• giant lumps in the armpits and thighs
• -> bacterial growth in the lymph system

Question 12

What 3 biovars were discovered?

Answer 12

1. Medievalis
2. Antiqua
3. Orientalis

Question 13

Biomarker

Answer 13

Refers to a measurable indicator of some biological state or condition