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Sydney’s 1789 smallpox epidemic came from the First Fleet and killed up to 220,000 Indigenous Australians: new research

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According to The Conversation (Australia), new research contends that Sydney's smallpox epidemic of seventeen eighty-nine arrived with the First Fleet and ultimately killed as many as two hundred twenty thousand Indigenous Australians.

Source: https://theconversation.com/sydneys-1789-smallpox-epidemi...

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