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Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 14:46:15 -0400

At 12:35 AM -0400 on 8/17/02, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:


> Wasn't the Aztec population that greeted Cortez already largely
> decimated by the microbiology brought over by DeSoto nearly a hundred
> years before?

>>From my PBS education (Michael whatsisname, the "Alexander" guy, among
other things) on the subject, I believe the smallpox stuff happened
*during* the invasion. The conquistadores themselves were, in fact, disease
vectors.
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