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Smallpox and other diseases
smallpox and other diseases
When the Europeans came they passed a disease called smallpox.
Smallpox and other diseases
No. They contracted smallpox and other European diseases. Yellow fever is native to Africa and was introduced into Latin America in the late 18th century.
The diseases that the Europeans brought to the Caribbean were chicken pox, typhoid, bubonic plague, smallpox, measles, influenza and many more. Before, the native people didnâ??t know anything about these diseases thatâ??s why they did not have any immunity to these kinds of diseases.
Medicine has not been as successful as we would have imagined in that area. Those diseases are alive and well in other parts of the world. Smallpox is severe.
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Cowpox. Edward Jenner inoculated a boy with cowpox in early discovery of smallpox vaccine, it is part of the Vaccinia virus family
Smallpox does not cause any deaths. Other preventable diseases cause deaths.
Smallpox and other plague like diseases. Also guns
The Europeans infected them with smallpox and other diseases. :]