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  • 1 - Vaccines as Instruments of Public Health

  • Ana Santos Rutschman, Villanova University, Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    Vaccines as Technology
    Published online:
    07 April 2022
    Print publication:
    14 April 2022, pp 12-25

  • Summary

    Pathogens and humans have coexisted for a long time. Studies suggest that, even before recorded history, nomadic populations are likely to have suffered from a plethora of diseases, such as malaria and perhaps yellow fever. The transition to a sedentary lifestyle anchored around small villages, and later on the establishment of large urban centers from Mesopotamia to the Indus Valley and what is modern-day China, paved the way for the increased spread and diversification of these pathogens. High population density, the comingling of humans and animals, and the proliferation of trade routes linking once-distant urban areas enabled viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens to propagate quickly and travel progressively farther. To this day, these dynamics set forth in antiquity continue to play out in similar ways in a world that has become more connected and densely populated.