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Disease
Spanish Colonization Overview (Video)
Khan Academy
How Europeans brought sickness to the New World (article and images)
Science Magazine, 2015
The Story Of... Smallpox – and other Deadly Eurasian Germs (article)
PBS: Guns, Germs and Steel, 2005
National Geographic
The history of smallpox and its spread around the world (book excerpt)
Fenner, Frank. Smallpox and Its Eradication. World Health Organization, 1988.
Viruses, Plagues, and History (book excerpt)
Oxford University Press, published in the New York Times, 1998
Primary Sources: A Collection of Primary Sources on Diseases in Latin America
Digital History Reader
Guns, Germs and Steel: Smallpox (Video)
PBS 2005 Full credits for the show can be found here
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