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iemanja

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4. It's much deadlier than COVID

Reply to JanMichael (Reply #2)

Wed Nov 17, 2021, 09:30 PM

Nov 2021

It wiped out 90% of the indigenous population of Latin America in the 16th and 17th centuries, though it eventually recovered to 25% of its original size. There are reports of the virus preceding the arrival of Europeans to villages in the Yucatan. While the Europeans were the carriers of the virus, it was airborne so preceded their arrival in a particular location. They'd find entire villages decimated.

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Vials labeled 'smallpox' found at vaccine research facility in Pennsylvania, CDC says [View all] applegrove Nov 2021 OP

How could that happen? At what is in the bowels of other lab freezers applegrove Nov 2021 #1

Holy shit. I knew Small Pox was bad but jeeze... JanMichael Nov 2021 #2

It's much deadlier than COVID iemanja Nov 2021 #4

That is just fucking terrifying. Maru Kitteh Nov 2021 #3

The poor lab tech NickB79 Nov 2021 #5

I got the smallpox vaccine in 2017 madville Nov 2021 #6