Early settlers in Deep South had smallpox vaccines; did they share with Native Americans?
It was awful. By the 1700s, the British were attempting to infect Native Americans with smallpox by giving them blankets from ...
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Deadly Diseases
During the French and Indian War (1754-1763), the British intentionally gave smallpox-contaminated blankets to the Indians, resulting in an epidemic with a 50 percent mortality rate. The story of ...