https://billsbrain.net/the-us-would-not-exist-without-cooties/ To see a world in a grain of sand Wed, 06 Mar 2019 21:05:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://billsbrain.net/the-us-would-not-exist-without-cooties/#comment-20 Sat, 02 Mar 2019 21:29:09 +0000 https://billsbrain.net/?p=455#comment-20 Interesting research discussion on this subject here: http://bedside-rounds.org/episode-28-smallpox-blankets/

]]> https://billsbrain.net/the-us-would-not-exist-without-cooties/#comment-17 Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:53:52 +0000 https://billsbrain.net/?p=455#comment-17 The first recorded case of biological warfare was in the French and Indian War, where the British gave blankets infected with smallpox to warring tribes during a truce. It was highly effective.Estimates are that ninety percent of the native populations were wiped out in the New World due to disease, leaving it wide open for colonization.

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