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“we could eradicate smallpox from nature, but we could not uproot the virus from the human heart”

— Richard Preston

“Certainty has killed more people than smallpox.”

— Steve Merrick

Smallpox in a blanket, which the U.S. Army gave to the Cherokee Indians on their long march to the West, was nothing compared to…

— Michael Savage

“Europeans killed many native people directly without the assistance of disease. In some instances, they intentionally used disease as a biological weapon by, for…

— Douglas Preston

“The Indians fell ill predictably enough, but they didn’t come to Possuelo for help. Instead, they fled into the forest, further spreading the diseases.…

— Scott Wallace

“IT’S ARBOR DAY! LET’S HUG TREES AND EAT CAKE! COLUMBUS BROUGHT SMALLPOX TO THE NATIVES; WE SHALL RECALL THE OCCASION WITH A PICNIC!, etc.”

— John Green

“There is no question but that perfect sanitation has almost obliteraed this disease, smallpox, and sooner or later, will dispose of it entirely. Of…

— John Tilden M.D

“One traveler to the Congo came on a deserted town where a fifteen-foot boa constrictor was dining on smallpox victims’ flesh, and on another…

— Adam Hochschild

“They want the Indians eliminated, and the lands opened up to white settlers, but they don't want anybody to get hurt in the process.…

— Michael Crichton

“Before the first settlers arrived on American shores, a massive plague, or series of plagues, had essentially annihilated the indigenous peoples. They”

— Evan Currie

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians…

— Jared Diamond

“Throughout the Americas, diseases introduced with Europeans spread from tribe to tribe far in advance of the Europeans themselves, killing an estimated 95 percent…

— Jared Diamond