Pilgrim Pathogens: The Diseases of Thanksgiving

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 & present, of the Thanksgiving holiday (or the last Thursday in November for the rest of the world).


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• https://www.poison.org/articles/2014-oct/happy-and-safe-thanksgiving
• https://www.southtampaimmediatecare.com/common-ailments-around-thanksgiving.html
• https://slate.com/technology/2012/11/leptospirosis-and-pilgrims-the-wampanoag-may-have-been-killed-off-by-an-infectious-disease.html
• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/11/151121-first-thanksgiving-pilgrims-native-americans-wampanoag-saints-and-strangers/#close
• https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/us/thanksgiving-myths-fact-check.html
• https://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.html
• https://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-share
• https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-01-31/european-colonization-americas-killed-10-percent-world-population-and-caused
• https://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/variables/smallpox.html#:~:text=When%20the%20Europeans%20arrived%2C%20carrying,estimated%2090%25%20of%20Native%20Americans
• http://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-change
• https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0277379118307261?token=2068732179B4C8B10BB5F2272CDED703B1E7B1746EE3B84D4E18B2AA605D1700840BCFCDA956E6F66ABE512C7BCA52E2