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Sydney’s 1789 smallpox epidemic came from the First Fleet and killed up to 220,000 Indigenous Australians: new research (www.unsw.edu.au)
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[–] stenAanden@feddit.dk -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

New mathematical modelling shows the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in the Sydney region may have spread thousands of kilometres and lasted decades.

The bogus virgin soil hypothesis strikes again