Re: Pre-contact diseases anyone???

Ethan Vishniac (ethan@grendel.as.utexas.edu)
15 Jun 1995 18:19:07 GMT

John D. Brennan IV <John.D.Brennan.IV@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>
>...it pictured a new bone find exhibiting the effects of
>smallpox dated several hundred years before Columbus. If you can find
>that there's more references in the back of the magazine.

Smallpox causes bone lesions? Are you sure you aren't thinking
of tuberculosis? I remember some news about that, but nothing
about smallpox.

"Quis tamen tale studium, quo ad primam omnium rerum causam evehimur,
tamquam inutile aut contemnendum detractare ac deprimere ausit?"-Bridel

Ethan T. Vishniac
Dept. of Astronomy also Associate Professor of Astrophysiology
The University of Texas G.G. Simpson Hereditable Chair of Evilution
Austin, Texas, 78712 University of Ediacara
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