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To: wardaddy
If it's that simple to blame whites (as usual) then why didn't the Indians here have their own diseases to kill the whites in kind.

They did. Tropical fevers to which Europeans had no immunity killed large numbers of the early colonists throughout the Americas. Syphilis and hepatitis are generally considered to have originated in the New World and been transported back to Europe.

23 posted on 01/10/2010 11:04:45 AM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:N59qxGSfGM0J:www.eoearth.org/article/Columbian_exchange:_plants,_animals,_and_disease_between_the_Old_and_New_World+new+world+diseases&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us


24 posted on 01/10/2010 11:15:59 AM PST by wardaddy (Ole Miss beat Oklahoma State....and Bama is #1.....it's good to be from Dixie...cold though)
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