Columbus Quote by Peter Lewis Allen

The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people…

— Aldous Huxley

“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

“COLUMBUS BROUGHT SMALLPOX TO THE NATIVES; WE SHALL RECALL THE OCCASION WITH A PICNIC!”

— John Green

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

“merchants who financed this expedition viewed it as a reconnaissance mission rather than a trading venture and little cargo was loaded on board the…

— Giles Milton

“No sooner were the ships unloaded, however, than sickness broke out among the crews. It quickly spread among the natives, who had come to…

— David E. Stannard

A propos of Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe here. The…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Columbus and his men, they say, Conveyed the virus hither Whereby my features rot away And vital powers wither; Yet had they not traversed…

— Richard Wilbur

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

“They would be even more powerful if that pox epidemic hadn’t flattened their birthrate and made them so desperate for a new gene pool…

— Suzanne Collins

“If you believe the many biographies of great men and women, none of them ever had syphilis. Which would be a remarkable stroke of…

— Jennifer Wright

“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