[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

“smallpox terror attacks”

I have often wondered if some nation will release the variola virus back onto the public as most of the world has never been vaccinated for smallpox.

Us old timers still remember it and the inoculation.

No doubt someone will bring up “smallpox blankets” in the 1760s. Remember at that time no one knew how smallpox was spread. It was believed epidemics came from “Bad Air (misama)”, the Evil Eye and a Witch hex.

By the 1800s it was beginning to be understood.

You want something frightening read Catlin’s article on how the smallpox destroyed the Mandans of North Dakota.

[frank ballenger]

I saw online that medical people were wrong and our smallpox immunity last only “3-5 years.”

Here we go again.

[skinny old man]

sukoff dweebe

[skinny old man]

sukoff dweebe

[Hiddigeigei]

"You want something frightening read Catlin’s article on how the smallpox destroyed the Mandans of North Dakota."
I read that after the surrender of Fort Henry during the French and Indian War, the Indians dug up British and American soldiers that had died of smallpox and took their scalps back to their villages (with disastrous consequences for their villages).