Stealthy Approach Of Epidemics Revealed By Tuberculosis Strain Spread By The Fur Trade
French Canadian voyageurs spread tuberculosis throughout the indigenous peoples of western Canada for over 150 years, yet, strangely enough, it wasn’t until the fur traders ceased their forays that epidemics of tuberculosis broke out. Now Stanford researchers have puzzled out why…
April 12, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: forays, fur-traders, indigenous, indigenous-peoples, nutrition, on call diets, stanford, tuberculosis, until-the-fur, voyageurs-spread