Americapox: The missing plague
Colonisation killed 90% of native Americans through disease. So why did no native plague travel the other way? London, alpacas and smallpox explain it.
90% of the native americans died during the new world colonisation. It was not due to the invaders themselves, but to their plagues.
So why the natives viruses didn’t plagued the old continent too?
Because London, alpacas, smallpox.
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