Quote by Jared Diamond

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

“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

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

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

— Evan Currie

“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

“that 90 percent of them had died by 1620, almost entirely a result of contact with settlers, who brought foreign diseases and”

— Christina Baker Kline

“Scholars have estimated that by 1850, the aboriginal population in North America—besieged by the invaders’ explosive weaponry, wondrous technology, contemptuous cruelty, and irresistible pathogens,…

— Richard Kluger

“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

“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

“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

“Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918–1919, some 50 million people were killed by something far too small to even see, let alone hunt and destroy.…

— Bill Nye

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

— Bobby Akart