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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (126681)7/21/2005 11:35:53 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 793861
 
I believe it's been debunked for the most part.

I don't know whether it's been debunked or not. I do know that some Indian tribes suffered as many as 90% casualties from smallpox, whether deliberate or not.

Contemporary accounts make it seem like Ebola or something else truly virulent. People dying in their tracks, just keeling over dead with blood gushing from every orifice.

One story that comes to mind has to do with a riverboat on a Western river, maybe the Platt. The white people on the riverboat had a smallpox epidemic, some died, most lived, but those who lived were still contageous when they tied up at various trading posts and the epidemic spread from there.

It seems almost certain that Native Americans split off from Europeans and Asians before smallpox became endemic, and over thousands of years, developed some immunity that Native Americans did not have.

If a shipment of blankets killed a tribe of Indians, how could we know whether it was deliberate or an accident, unless someone confessed in writing?
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