Colonial research project O'Kane

Disease Malaria is caused by a parasite called Plasmodium. Mosquitoes are the vectors, meaning that they carry this parasite and spread the disease from person to person. Symptoms of malaria can include fever, headache, and vomitting (usually 10-15 days after mosquito bite).

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The Columbian Exchange is often times praised for the positive things that it brought about such as the exchange of new animals, foods, and plants between the Old World and the New World. However, not all of the aspects of the Columbian Exchange were positive.

Study Guide Death Colonial Disease and Illness Epidemics ravaged both white and Native populations in colonial New England. The source of these epidemics is not surprising: low resistance, poor sanitation, and inadequate medical knowledge. As Dr. William Douglass put it in 1760 about white medicine, "more die of the practitioner than of the natural course of the disease" ( Duffy 4; cites Douglass).