24 apr 1789 anni - Smallpox Outbreak
Descrizione:
15 months after the arrival of the First Fleet, an outbreak of lethal smallpox plagued Sydney (the virus contaminated the Indigenous Australian population after British that built an immunity to smallpox symptoms carried this illness from their home country). Roughly 607,000 Aboriginal peoples did not survive the epidemic.
Was the smallpox outbreak intentional?
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Brief History of Australian Colonisation to Federation (1788-1901)
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