Nicholas Wang

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The biggest of the big ones during the twentieth century was the 1918–1919 influenza. Before that, on the North American continent, the big one for native peoples was smallpox, arriving from Spain about 1520 with the expedition that helped Cortez conquer Mexico. Back in Europe, two centuries earlier, it was the Black Death, probably attributable to bubonic plague.
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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