DRAFT version of 9/26/05
| TABLE: 19th CENTURY EPIDEMICS | ||||
| Disease | Most common organ system effected | Agent | Class of Agent [You research details] |
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| Cholera | GI (watery diarrhea), dehydration, circulatory stasis, death | Vibrio cholera | Bacteria | |
| Dysentery, bacillary | GI (bloody diarrhea) | Shigella sp. | Bacteria | |
| Dysentery, amoebic | GI (bloody diarrhea) | Entamoeba histolytica | Protozoan | |
| Diphtheria | Respiratory (esp. throat) | Corynebacterium diphtheriae | Bacteria | Direct close contact, droplets (respiratory) |
| Tuberculosis | Respiratory (lungs), but other systems also (e.g., CNS) | Mycobacterium tuberculosis | Bacteria | |
| Typhus fever | Three types: epidemic, endemic, scrub | Rickettsiae sp. | A special type of bacteria | transmitted by insect (louse, flea, or chigger) |
| Typhoid fever | Multi-system (fever, headache, diarrhea, slow heart rate) | Salmonella typhi | Bacteria | food or water contaminated with feces |
| Smallpox | Multi-system (lesions most evident on skin) | Variola major and Variola minor | Virus | |
| Scarlet fevers | Sore throat, fever, rash | Streptococcus sp. | Bacteria | Direct close contact (respiratory) |
| Yellow fever | Hemorrhagic illness | Flaviviridae flavivirus | Virus | mosquito borne |