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Carlton, Victoria

1 entries published in this place. (Carlton, AU)

2002

#13567

Invisible invaders: Smallpox and other diseases in Aboriginal Australia 1780-1880.

"An epidemic of smallpox among Aboriginal people around the infant colony of Sydney in 1789 puzzled the British, for there had been no cases on the ships of the First Fleet. Where, then, did the epidemic come from? "A…