In the 1590s, smallpox was not the only disease impacting Indigenous populations in America; other significant diseases included measles, influenza, and typhus. These Infectious Diseases were often brought by European explorers and settlers, leading to devastating outbreaks among Native American communities who had no prior exposure or immunity. The introduction of these diseases contributed to significant population decline and social disruption among Indigenous peoples.
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
Smallpox and other diseases
The Europeans infected them with smallpox and other diseases. :]