European Diseases: The diseases brought to this continent by the Europeans included bubonic plague, chicken pox, pneumonic plague, cholera, diphtheria, influenza, measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, typhus, tuberculosis, and whooping cough.
Silverfish are sometimes mistaken for centipedes, which do inflict painful bites. One way to tell the difference is to note how many legs the bug has. Upon close inspection of a silverfish, youâll see that it only has six legs. o Silverfish are small insects (between 1/4 inch and 1/2 inch) and have shimmering, silver-colored scales.
In the Caribbean there are some jellyfish which come as small as a thimble or the eraser tip of a pencil. On the other end of the scale the Arctic Lions' Mane jellyfish has a bell of up to 2.5 metres or 8 feet in diameter and tentacles which can reach up to 60 metres or 200 feet in length.To put that length into perspective it is around the length of two blue whales.he largest arctic Lions mane jellyfish specimen ever recorded had a jaw dropping bell diameter of a whopping 2.3 metres of seven feet and 6 inches and tentacles which trailed up to thirty six and a half metres or one hundred and twenty feet behind it.