Chilean Mummies Prove Europeans Brought Smallpox to the Americas—But That’s Not All

Newly examined mummies from Chile are giving researchers physical evidence that European colonizers brought smallpox to the Americas, io9 reports. The finding backs up a long-held historical assumption, and the outlet notes there's more to the study than that single result, though it hasn't detailed what that is. Smallpox went on to devastate Indigenous populations across the Americas in the centuries following European contact.

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