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To: muawiyah

"A more recent discovery is that they were killed to an even greater degree by a Hanta virus native to the Americas."

Quite a lengthy thread on this topic, on FR, in fact.


178 posted on 08/22/2006 7:03:53 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
Yup ~ and in every popular science periodical at the newsstands, and in several peer reviewed journals.

I was quite surprised to see the hanta virus thing since the 85% to 95% death rates were expressed in a New England setting in the 1640s through a combination of smallpox, mumps, measles and what was probably influenza.

There were no Spaniards around to kill the Indians in that location of course ~ just whole big bunches of Englishmen!

Given all this information it's simply amazing we still have people walking around with this "Spaniards killed 'em" idea.

180 posted on 08/22/2006 7:11:43 PM PDT by muawiyah
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