Miscellaneous
We may not all agree on side dishes or which dessert is best, but the one thing we do know: Thanksgiving and diseases go together like turkey and gravy. On this episode of Viral Load, we cover the diseases, both past and present, of the Thanksgiving holiday (or the last Thursday of November for everyone else).Sources:.https://www.poison.org/articles/2014-oct/happy-and-safe-thanksgivinghttps://www.southtampaimmediatecare.com/common-ailments-around-thanksgiving.htmlhttps://slate.com/technology/2012/11/leptospirosis-and-pilgrims-the-wampanoag-may-have-been-killed-off-by-an-infectious-disease.htmlhttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/11/151121-first-thanksgiving-pilgrims-native-americans-wampanoag-saints-and-strangers/#closehttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/us/thanksgiving-myths-fact-check.htmlhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/thanksgiving-myth-and-what-we-should-be-teaching-kids-180973655/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/dining/thanksgiving-native-americans.htmlhttps://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/coronavirus/an-inquiring-professor-wanted-to-know-what-was-thanksgiving-like-during-the-1918-spanish-flu/article_4dd5094c-e439-57ff-9e66-20eebf2017c5.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-sharehttps://www.pri.org/stories/2019-01-31/european-colonization-americas-killed-10-percent-world-population-and-causedhttps://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/variables/smallpox.html#:~:text=When%20the%20Europeans%20arrived%2C%20carrying,estimated%2090%25%20of%20Native%20Americanshttp://inthepastlane.com/of-plague-and-pilgrims-how-a-devastating-epidemic-shaped-the-first-thanksgiving-nov-18-2012/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/31/european-colonization-of-americas-helped-cause-climate-changehttps://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0277379118307261?token=2068732179B4C8B10BB5F2272CDED703B1E7B1746EE3B84D4E18B2AA605D1700840BCFCDA956E6F66ABE512C7BCA52E2