Up to 50% of the white population was wiped out by disease from the Asians, diseases are something that is tough to whip, they still kill millions of people every year.
while I support using antibiotics and the like to augment our immune systems we’ve grown far too dependent on them. Kids and people used to get dirty and sick on occasion and build up immunity. Now people santize the immune system right out of themselves. By not being exposed to anything if your bodies hit with the right virus or disease it has no defense.
Unless we can develop better medicines thats where the new plagues are going to come from.
The mutation is thought to have occurred because of the European life style versus the South American life style.
That is, heavy, rarely washed clothes versus rarely clothed natives prancing around the "rain forests".
The original bacterial infection sores, covered by clothes, and not exposed to UV, O2, etc, eventually mutated in to "syphilis".
It wasn't until earlier this decade that the last known infections of the original bacteria were wiped out in the Western Hemisphere.
I read recently (some medical journal, don't remember which one) that over 50% of all deaths result from infectious disease.
In this age of antibiotics and vaccines, that number is just staggering.
Another “high count” fantasy. It is highly unlikely that what was a culture barely removed from the stone-age in Mexico supported a population of 25 million. Leftist academics have deliberately been distorting the aborinal population numbers for North and South America to create a “narrative” of “evil” Europeans creating a “holocaust” (every official “victim” group wants a “holocaust” “narrative” to obtain economic and psychological rents (unearned benefits) from peoples who are more successful than they are).
The Aztecs were defeated militarily, only in part because of the superior weapons and martial ferocity of the Spaniards (who may have been the toughest troops in Europe at the time). A larger factor was that the Indians subjugated by the Aztecs hated the Aztecs and joined the Spaniards, not least of all because the Aztecs were cannibals and the other Indians were tired of being “the other white meat”.
The story in Peru was even more dramatic - and it wasn’t disease that broke the Incan Army - it was the collectivist mentality that caused paralysis among the Incan warriors when their leader was killed.