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A 1200-year-old smallpox-infected Viking skeleton found in Öland, Sweden. Credit: The Swedish National Heritage Board

A 1200-year-old smallpox-infected Viking skeleton found in Öland, Sweden. Credit: The Swedish National Heritage Board

1 posted on 07/25/2020 10:53:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Scientists have discovered extinct strains of smallpox

How were the Vikings able to eradicate smallpox?

4 posted on 07/25/2020 10:59:52 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Oh No.

A vaccine that ultimately enabled scientists to stop smallpox


6 posted on 07/25/2020 11:01:44 AM PDT by truth_seeker ( ^^\/**|_|**\/ ^^^^)
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To: SunkenCiv

But but but!

Who gave it to the vikings?


8 posted on 07/25/2020 11:12:03 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ah ha! So it wasn’t Columbus that spread it through the new world.


16 posted on 07/25/2020 11:31:15 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamo nauseated. Also LGBTQxyz nauseated)
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To: SunkenCiv

The Vikings haven’t been much of a threat since the 1970’s.


17 posted on 07/25/2020 11:37:38 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: SunkenCiv

Yet they still went to work raping and pillaging...


18 posted on 07/25/2020 11:38:57 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: SunkenCiv
Dr. Fauci is probably quite anxious to
send this ancient strain of smallpox to
to his friends in Wuhan, China to be
functionally enhanced.
19 posted on 07/25/2020 11:54:26 AM PDT by StormEye
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To: SunkenCiv

They were Chinese?


20 posted on 07/25/2020 11:56:14 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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To: SunkenCiv
Now, who gave smallpox to the Vikings? Que the History 'I'm not saying, but was it Aliens? ' 😋guy.
21 posted on 07/25/2020 11:57:12 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-) Trump 2020)
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To: SunkenCiv
Smallpox spread from person to person via infectious droplets,

It is also spread by drilling into the teeth of dead Vikings.

22 posted on 07/25/2020 12:03:29 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (In 2016 Obama ended America's 220 year tradition of peaceful transfer of power after an election.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Random weird question:

I wonder how the Mongol practice of depopulating entire areas impacted the spread of diseases from east to west back in the day?

Did it halt some plagues?

Did it push plagues to the west with the refugees that managed to get away?


25 posted on 07/25/2020 12:13:00 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: SunkenCiv

If only they’d won one of those Super Bowls.


29 posted on 07/25/2020 1:05:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SunkenCiv

What are the consequences of “digging” into smallpox infestations? It’s one of the reasons I don’t agree with grave digging.


30 posted on 07/25/2020 1:06:48 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SunkenCiv

What did Fauci do? He was around back then wasn’t he?


31 posted on 07/25/2020 1:23:21 PM PDT by cork (gun control, proper grip, stance and target picture)
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To: SunkenCiv

So ... if we can’t say COVID was started by the Chinese without being called racists, is this author racist against Vikings? /s


32 posted on 07/25/2020 1:40:17 PM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: SunkenCiv

lr


33 posted on 07/25/2020 1:45:16 PM PDT by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Judging from the teeth, this was a pretty young person in their prime.


36 posted on 07/25/2020 8:57:38 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: SunkenCiv
I thought you'd be bigger

Damn blonde white vikings, killing people with their white diseases

38 posted on 07/26/2020 9:00:38 AM PDT by Pollard (whatever)
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