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    1. Mike Stuchbery 💀 🍷‏Verified account @MikeStuchbery_ 24 Nov 2018
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      Unfortunately, we have one big case study, staring us in the face - the Spanish Conquest of the Americas in the 15th and 16th cases. While the Conquistadors and their ilk certainly did engage in abhorrent, brutal violence, they were far from the most lethal killers. /2pic.twitter.com/fJNsGFJaXi

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    2. Mike Stuchbery 💀 🍷‏Verified account @MikeStuchbery_ 24 Nov 2018
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      The arrival of Columbus on Hispaniola (now Haiti/Dominican Republic) in 1492 was the first inkling of what would happen. While Columbus did go out of his way to enslave and murder the Taino - so much so an investigator was spent from Spain - he was outpaced by stowaways. /3pic.twitter.com/H2UX2onNe1

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    3. Mike Stuchbery 💀 🍷‏Verified account @MikeStuchbery_ 24 Nov 2018
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      Some historians have hypothesised that with Columbus's arrival alone, over 30 separate diseases & parasites were introduced to the Taino by Columbus's crew. It's estimated that the indigenous population dropped from around 60,000 to around 500 in the space of a few years. /4pic.twitter.com/d7jcJ3SRiU

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    4. Mike Stuchbery 💀 🍷‏Verified account @MikeStuchbery_ 24 Nov 2018
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      Still, for around 25 - 30 years, the decimation of indigenous population was confined to islands under Spanish control. One of the first proven vectors for the spread of diseases and parasites into the 'New World' was Hernan Cortes, as he landed on Mexican shores in 1519. /5pic.twitter.com/Xna5FunNR0

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    5. Mike Stuchbery 💀 🍷‏Verified account @MikeStuchbery_ 24 Nov 2018
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      It is documented Smallpox - one of the deadliest killers - was present in Cortes' bands of soldiers. While it did not hinder them, it certainly afflicted the Aztec they met By the time conflict broke out, accounts speak of Spanish fighting in plague-decimated Aztec cities. /6pic.twitter.com/jmy92AVsV6

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    6. Mike Stuchbery 💀 🍷‏Verified account @MikeStuchbery_ 24 Nov 2018
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      While these first outbreaks of smallpox were to surprise the Spanish , the real impact of the diseases and parasites brought by the Spanish would be a slow burn. It would kill via water infected by cholera, by influenza outbreaks, through fleas carrying plague. /7pic.twitter.com/RbJj8L8Mlo

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    7. Mike Stuchbery 💀 🍷‏Verified account @MikeStuchbery_ 24 Nov 2018
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      The means by which Spanish concentrated indigenous populations in the decades after 1519 also enabled the spread of disease. Missions, mining operations and trading posts also enabled the spread to disparate communities. /8pic.twitter.com/RD2RKEDbSy

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    8. Mike Stuchbery 💀 🍷‏Verified account @MikeStuchbery_ 24 Nov 2018
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      It's estimated that 95% of the deaths of indigenous populations in the 'New World' following the Spanish Conquest can be attributed to disease. So, why? Yes, little exposure to western diseases plays a large role, but also the nature of those diseases. /9

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    9. Mike Stuchbery 💀 🍷‏Verified account @MikeStuchbery_ 24 Nov 2018
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      It has been posited by a number of historians and epidemiologists that many diseases that had simmered away among European populations had evolved or arisen as afflictions that required straightforward vectors - touch, droplets, water sources to pass on. /10

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    10. Mike Stuchbery 💀 🍷‏Verified account @MikeStuchbery_ 24 Nov 2018
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      They did not require the presence of certain species to spread, and those that did, such as bubonic plague, could be spread by species that thrived and spread in the 'New World'. This might explain why diseases did not travel back to Europe from the Americas. /11pic.twitter.com/xAmnlpbDhm

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      Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ‏ @o_guest 24 Nov 2018
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      I thought the rat/bubonic plague relationship was not true? Did you see this?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42690577 …

      4:54 AM - 24 Nov 2018
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        2. Mike Stuchbery 💀 🍷‏Verified account @MikeStuchbery_ 24 Nov 2018
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          That changes every few years. It always ends back being fleas. Some variants of the plague, however, could be transmitted by bodily fluids or droplets. Pneumonic & septicemic plague.

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