“Destroying Generation after Generation”: Outbreaks of Smallpox in the Cuchumatán Highlands of Guatemala (1780-1810)

The advent of Covid-19, unforeseen though it was, and destructive though it remains, affords timely opportunity to reflect on the occurrence of past pandemics and their impact on humankind. Devastating as the Black Death in fourteenth-century Europe is known to be, loss-of-life caused too, in the wa...

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Main Author: W. George Lovell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Viella Editrice 2021-12-01
Series:Storicamente
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Online Access:https://storicamente.org/lovell_smallpox_cuchumatan_highlands_of_guatemala
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