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Health during the Industrial Revolution (History) In XIX century Industrial Revolution which according to Yale University was the period of time were agriculture, textile, metal, and transportation industries started to develop in England. As economy grew better and better, job opportunities started to appear and people who lived in rural areas started to migrate into the cities. Suddenly cities became overpopulated and consequences started to appear. Illnesses carried by insects or animals and airborne viruses started to kill thousands of people. Some examples of the viruses were the Anopheles Mosquito, Lyme disease and the Snail Fever. Anopheles Mosquito: Tree removals leaves ponds with standing water and are hit by more sunlight rays that changes the Ph or acidity of the pond making it more vulnerable for growing a mosquito home atmosphere. These mosquitoes, also called anopheles mosquitoes, are the effects of deforestation in cities and rural environments. The problem with these mosquitoes is that they carry malaria, which is a lethal and very contagious disease that rapidly increases in a population. Lyme disease: Is an infectious disease cause by at least 3 combinations of different bacteria. It was known that the Lyme disease was a tick-borne disease, the disease remains a mystery. It is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected ticks belonging to a genus called Ixodes. The early symptoms are fever, headache, and fatigue. Rarely the infected person had a hard rash that was very painful and very itchy. Snail fever: This in a disease that is caused by an increase in snail population. The causes of these increase in population is because of dams and other human buildings that make stand the pond and makes the snail to search for a new habitat. These snails carry out a specific type of larvae that is called Schistosomes which enter inside the human skin. This fever is highly contagious and also will attack a whole population or city as the rate of expansion increases rapidly. These diseases happened because thousands of families moved to the big cities to look for better job opportunities therefore having a better quality of life. Disease was created because cities got crowded and pollution and other factors led to an increase in unhealthy factors that will cause disease and other plagues, that as they were in overcrowded cities it was easily contagious. References: "Schistosomiasis: Snail Fever." Infoplease. Web. 26 Feb. 2014. . "The Industrial Revolution." 81.02.06: The 7