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Of course not. The diseases were most likely carried by stowaway rats. It would have been almost impossible for the diseases to have been spread intentionally because there was little known about the spread of illness at the time.

There was no knowledge about germs and virus's in the days of Columbus. He cannot be blamed for the deaths of Native Tribes.

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