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Read Replies (1) | Respond to oh we had experience Documented smallpox epidemics in the New World [31] YearLocationDescription 1520–1527 Mexico, Central America, South America Smallpox kills millions of native inhabitants of Mexico. Unintentionally introduced at Veracruz with the arrival of Panfilo de Narvaez on April 23, 1520 [32] and was credited with the victory of Cortes over the Aztec empire at Tenochtitlan (present-day Mexico City) in 1521. Kills the Inca ruler, Huayna Capac , and 200,000 others and weakens the Incan Empire. 1561–1562 Chile No precise numbers on deaths exist in contemporary records but it is estimated that natives lost 20 to 25 percent of their population. According to Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo , so many Indian laborers died that the Spanish gold mines had to shut down. [33] 1588–1591 Central Chile A combined smallpox, measles and typhus plague strikes Central Chile contributing to a decline of indigenous populations. [34] 1617–1619 North America northern east coast Killed 90% of the Massachusetts Bay Indians 1655 Chillán , Central Chile An outbreak of smallpox occurred among refugees from Chillán as the city was evacuated amidst the Mapuche uprising of 1655 . Spanish authorities put this group in effective quarantine decreeing death sentences for anyone crossing Maule River north. [35] 1674 Cherokee Tribe Death count unknown. Population in 1674 about 50,000. After 1729, 1738, and 1753 smallpox epidemics their population was only 25,000 when they were forced to Oklahoma on the Trail Of Tears . 1692 Boston, MA 1702–1703 St. Lawrence Valley, NY 1721 Boston, MA 1736 Pennsylvania 1738 South Carolina 1770s West Coast of North America Kills over 30% of indigenous peoples on the West Coast of North America 1781–1783 Great Lakes 1830s Alaska Reduced Dena'ina Athabaskan population in Cook Inlet region of southcentral Alaska by half. [36] Smallpox also devastated Yup'ik Eskimo populations in western Alaska . 1860–1861 Pennsylvania 1862 British Columbia , Washington state & Russian America Known as the Great Smallpox of 1862, an outbreak of smallpox in a large encampment of all indigenous peoples from around the colony on June 10, 1862, dispersed by order of the government to return to their homes, resulted in the deaths of 50-90% of the indigenous peoples in the region [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] 1865–1873 Philadelphia, PA, New York, Boston, MA and New Orleans, LA Same period of time, in Washington D.C., Baltimore, MD, Memphis, TN, Cholera and a series of recurring epidemics of Typhus, Scarlet Fever and Yellow Fever 1869 Araucanía , southern Chile A smallpox epidemic breaks out among native Mapuches , just some months after a destructive Chilean military campaign in Araucanía . [42] 1877 Los Angeles, CA 1902 Boston, Massachusetts Of the 1,596 cases reported in this epidemic, 270 died.
