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Question: approximately when did science actually figure out how diseases and viruses, such as small-pox spread? Thanks.

13 posted on 12/05/2002 6:18:24 PM PST by vikingchick

Question: approximately when did science actually figure out how diseases and viruses, such as small-pox spread? Thanks.

Funny you should ask. Historical overview of smallpox here...

Smallpox: The Triumph over the Most Terrible
of the Ministers of Death

14 posted on 12/05/2002 6:22:59 PM PST by Sabertooth

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Another thread...

POX AMERICANA -- The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775 - 82

Posted by Sabertooth
On 11/16/2001 1:25 PM PST with 15 comments

IMdiversity.com ^ | October, 2001 | Elizabeth Fenn
The following is a review of Pox Americana by the Native American Village Staff… During the years when the Revolutionary War transformed thirteen former British colonies into a new nation, a horrifying epidemic of smallpox was transforming -- or ending -- the lives of tens of thousands of people across the American continent. This great pestilence easily surpassed the war in terms of deaths, yet because of our understandable preoccupation with the Revolution and its aftermath, it has remained virtually unknown to us. Elizabeth A. Fenn is the first historian to reveal how deeply Variola affected the outcome of ...

17 posted on 12/05/2002 6:32:44 PM PST by Sabertooth

about 1820.

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47 posted on 12/06/2002 9:58:10 AM PST by stand watie

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POX AMERICANA -- The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775 - 82
			Posted by Sabertooth On 11/16/2001 1:25 PM PST with 15 comments IMdiversity.com ^ \| October, 2001 \| Elizabeth Fenn The following is a review of Pox Americana by the Native American Village Staff… During the years when the Revolutionary War transformed thirteen former British colonies into a new nation, a horrifying epidemic of smallpox was transforming -- or ending -- the lives of tens of thousands of people across the American continent. This great pestilence easily surpassed the war in terms of deaths, yet because of our understandable preoccupation with the Revolution and its aftermath, it has remained virtually unknown to us. Elizabeth A. Fenn is the first historian to reveal how deeply Variola affected the outcome of ...