@article{1356252,
      recid = {1356252},
      title = {Invisible armies [electronic resource] /},
      publisher = {Filmakers Library,},
      address = {New York, NY :},
      pages = {1 online resource (53 min.).},
      year = {1994},
      note = {Originally released as DVD.},
      abstract = {This program explores the relationship between the immune  system and history. Smallpox and measles were crowd  diseases prevalent in the teaming cities of the ancient  Near East. Malaria and yellow fever were infections endemic  to Africa. The program traces the decimation of Native  Americans by measles, small pox and cholera as well as the  rampage of syphilis and gonorrhea in Hawaii after Captain  Cook landed. The slave trade was also affected by disease.  Slave ships were conduits for the exchange of germs between  the crew and human cargo. Certainly the ambitions of  European colonizers were curtailed by tropical illnesses  until the discovery of quinine allowed them to go into  areas they had previously feared to tread. Today, the  Yanomami of Brazil are being decimated by white man s  diseases, while in Los Angeles, measles rages through the  Hispanic population.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1356252},
}