As the American Revolution begins, epidemic smallpox spreads across North America, killing hundreds ...

Influenza is one of the diseases that Europeans brought to the New World. Unlike previous influenza ...

“Virgin-soil” epidemics sweep through populations with no prior exposure to a particular infectious ...

Portuguese explorer Gaspar Corte-Real abducts two shiploads of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and other peoples ...

Diseases unknown to them spread rapidly among Native peoples, who lack immunity to viruses and bacteria ...