Disease Quote by Jared Diamond

“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

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed…

— 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

“When James Larrick and his colleagues studied the still relatively isolated Waorani Indians of Ecuador, they found no evidence of hypertension, heart disease, or…

— Christopher Ryan

“Colonial writers knew that disease tilled the virgin soil of the Americas countless times in the sixteenth century. But what they did not, could…

— Charles C. Mann

Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The…

— Jared Diamond

“The conditions necessary for devastating epidemics or pandemics just didn't exist until the agricultural revolution. The claim that modern medicine and sanitation save us…

— Cacilda Jethá

“That European diseases ran rampant in the New World is an old story, but recent discoveries in genetics, epidemiology, and archaeology have painted a…

— Douglas Preston

“if Columbus in an island of America had not caught the disease, which poisons the source of generation, and often indeed prevents generation, we…

— Voltaire

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

— Evan Currie

“Could it not be contrived to send the smallpox among those disaffected tribes of Indians? We”

— Bobby Akart

Immigrants can spread diseases for which we may have no immunity. There is also the question of crime and culture. Many immigrants come from…

— Ron Paul