Historic smallpox records digitized to support future outbreak research

NDORMS DPhil student Rabia Khan has led a collaborative project to digitize historic records from the world's last naturally ...
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Lesson Plan: Spanish Colonization of New Mexico and the Pueblo Revolt

Lieutenant Colonel John Roche provided the thesis and outline for his lecture on the relationship between the Spanish and Native Americans in New Mexico and the factors that influenced the success of ...
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Ancient DNA links smallpox

Researchers found smallpox DNA in ancestral remains of two adults at Camarones in northern Chile, a finding that offers the firmest evidence yet that European colonization brought smallpox to the ...
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Ancient mummy DNA provides scientific evidence that colonization brought smallpox to the Americas

NEW YORK — Ancient mummy DNA recovered in Chile has yielded the firmest evidence yet that European colonization brought smallpox to the Americas. Smallpox was one of the deadliest diseases in human ...