Americapox: The Missing Plague
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Between the first Europeans arriving in 1492 and the Victorian age, the indigenouspopulation of the New World dropped by at least 90%.The cause?Not the conquistadors and company -- they killed lots of people but their death count is nothingcompared to what they brought with them: small pox, typhus, tuberculosis, influenza, bubonicplague, cholera, mumps, measles and more leapt from those first explorers to the costal tribes,then onward the microscopic invaders spread through a hemisphere of people with no defensesagainst them. Tens of millions died.These germs decided the fate of these battles long before the fighting started.Now ask yourself: why didn't the Europeans get sick?If New-Worlders were vulnerable to old-world diseases, then surely Old-Worlders would bev...
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Between the first Europeans arriving in 1492 and the Victorian age, the indigenouspopulation of the New World dropped by at least 90%.The cause?Not the conquistadors and company -- they killed lots of people but their death count is nothingcompared to what they brought with them: small pox, typhus, tuberculosis, influenza, bubonicplague, cholera, mumps, measles and more leapt from those first explorers to the costal tribes,then onward the microscopic invaders spread through a hemisphere of people with no defensesagainst them. Tens of millions died.These germs decided the fate of these battles long before the fighting started.Now ask yourself: why didn't the Europeans get sick?If New-Worlders were vulnerable to old-world diseases, then surely Old-Worlders would bev...
