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To: Yogizuna who wrote (601)7/3/2002 7:48:10 PM
From: Noel de Leon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 3467
 
You are asking a relevant question. Smallpox was spread to the Indians by several ways. A Google search for "American Indian" +blankets +smallpox gave some good sources. The blanket/smallpox story may well be a myth. If it did happen it happened during the Pontiac wars.



To: Yogizuna who wrote (601)7/4/2002 7:38:42 AM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 3467
 
I suggest that if you are ever over here, you visit the Edward Jenner museum in Berkeley, UK and learn about the history of smallpox. Besides being a great museum, it is located next to one of the most interesting castles in England.

Smallpox is extremely contagious and not something that anyone would intentionally handle without causing themselves almost certain painful death.


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