Small Pox - The Emergence of Diseases in the New World

Paratyphoid fever was one of the pathagans that really popped out when the diane was sequenced. The slave trade and systems of plantation agriculture created and required help transfer pathegans from the old world tropics, largely from equatorial africa to the new world environments. It's worth pointing out that small pox got to be a bigger problem basically everywhere in the world right at this time. And so iti's kind of wrongd to focus on just that of small pox arriving in mexico and not see that smallpox is a terrific force of destruction in ming china at exactly the same time.