The Most Lethal Of Strangers 2 English Sweating Sickness A mysterious disease haunted Tudor England from 1485 1551 This disease called sweating sickness was responsible for many English deaths including Prince Arthur necessitating younger brother Henry to ascend to the throne of England Many medical scholars think the sweating sickness was generated by Hantavirus or its ancestor Hantavirus Remember this virus From the outbreak in the U S southwest Spread by rodent droppings if inhaled the virus infection causes a pulmonary infection leading to acute inflammation capillary dilation and death Henry VIII s arranged marriage and desire to sire a male heir led to his break with the Roman Catholic Church and the subsequent establishment of the Church of England the origin of the English Reformation Period Henry VIII s promiscuity fertility problems and aberrant behavior beheading two wives has led many medical historians to propose Henry suffered from the neurological effects of tertiary syphilis a sexually transmitted disease manifesting neurological symptoms Mary I Tudor Congenital Syphilis Mary Tudor Queen Mary I of England was born to King Henry VIII and Catherine of Argon in 1516 Mary earned her nickname Bloody Mary from her 5 year reign of religious intolerance more than 300 persons were burned at the stake for heresy Among them prominent Protestant clergymen Thomas Cranmer Some medical scholars propose Mary s mental instability and subsequent frail health could have been the result of congenital syphilis The nursery rhyme Mary Mary quite contrary derives from her unpopular attempts to bring Roman Catholicism back to England The cockle shells and silver bells symbolize the shrine of St James in Spain and the pretty maids all in a row the convent nuns Treponema pallidum The Teflon Pathogen The Great Deceiver Leading cause of mental illness in U S prior to penicillin Never been grown in pure culture Most fastidious bacterium known World AIDS Statistics as of 2007 33 million people living with AIDS 37 million in 2003 2 7 million infected 2007 5 million infected in 2003 2 million infected under age 15 2 5 million in 2003 2 million AIDS deaths in 2007 3 million in 2003 HIV AIDS Misinformation AIDS is spread by mosquitoes AIDS is a white man s disease AIDS is a Gay Plague HIV origins Studies of HIV genetic material suggest AIDS probably arose when humans living in the forests of central Africa butchered meat from chimpanzees infected with a related virus called SIV simian immunodeficiency virus This idea was referred to as the Hunter Hypothesis It was previously thought HIV first started to circulate in the human population in the 1930s A 2002 study indicates an early form of HIV was circulating in Leopoldville now Kinshasa Democratic Republic of Congo as early as the 1880s At the time Leopoldville was the largest city in the former Belgian Congo HIV in Children Each day some 1500 children under 15 years of age become infected with HIV 90 of these children live in sub Saharan Africa Most of children acquired the virus while in the womb during birth or while being breastfed ways of contracting HIV that can be prevented AIDS has devastated the social and economic framework of societies in sub Saharan Africa by mostly infecting people age 15 49 Africa is home to 95 of the world s 13 million children orphaned as a result of AIDS It was estimated in 2010 a third of African children are orphans Overview English monarch Arthur s death due to sweating sickness may have been due to the Hanta Sin Nombre virus Henry VIII may have suffered from syphilis caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum as a result of his promiscuous youth Tertiary syphilis would account for Henry VIII s violent erratic behavior and fertility problems North Carolina is a national leader in number of syphilis cases per 100 000 residents AIDS caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus HIV is a modern pandemic infecting 33M people worldwide The HIV is derived from the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus The first human AIDS case occurred in the 1880s HIV transmission from mother to child can be prevented by antiviral drugs in 98 of cases 90 of AIDS cases in children occur in Africa One third of all African children were orphaned by AIDS in 2010