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British vial of smallpox scabs triggered the devastating 1789 outbreak among Indigenous Australians
It's long been debated what started the devastating 1789 smallpox outbreak among Indigenous Australians. Now, a new modeling ...
Two new studies find that British colonists arriving via ship in the late 18th century likely introduced smallpox, which ...
A fresh analysis of an old scourge suggests smallpox likely slipped into Australia not via sick sailors, but via jars of ...
In Indian Country, it is an accepted fact that white settlers distributed items, such as blankets contaminated with smallpox and other infectious diseases, aiming to reduce the population of Native ...
Librarian Susanne Caro was leafing through an 1888 book on Civil War medicine when she spied a small, yellowed envelope tucked between the pages. Freeing it, she read the inscription "scabs from ...
It's long been debated what started the devastating 1789 smallpox outbreak among Indigenous Australians. Now, a new modeling ...
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