Smallpox was the disease brought by Europeans that was most destructive to the Native Americans, both in terms of morbidity and mortality. The first well-documented smallpox …

Jun 26, 2023 · While smallpox blankets may be a popularly accepted truth in American history, there is just one recorded case of colonists giving disease-infected blankets to Indigenous …

Malaria occurred in annual outbreaks starting in 1830 and was most intense in its effects until 1834. The disease clearly claimed a large proportion of the Native population and may have …

Nearly as soon as Europeans arrived, disease began to ravage Native tribes. Indigenous people had never been exposed to such diseases and had no immunity. Historians believe that …

May 30, 2025 · Historians and epidemiologists have noted that diseases like smallpox, measles, influenza, and typhus, all endemic in Europe, swept through Native American communities …

Europeans brought smallpox, measles, bubonic plague, influenza, typhus, diphtheria, and scarlet fever to the New World, and close American Indian communities spread these diseases, which …

Acute infectious diseases have been replaced by “diseases of poverty,” many of which reach epidemic proportions in some communities. Deaths from tuberculosis, type II diabetes mellitus, …

Influenza, smallpox, measles, and typhus fever were among the first European diseases imported to the Americas. During the first hundred years of contact with Europeans, Native Americans …

Jul 19, 2025 · Indian populations experienced devastating effects from diseases introduced by Europeans. Eastern tribes, such as the Iroquois and Susquehannock, were severely affected. …

Mar 5, 2024 · Health services administered by the Office of Indian Affairs were most often poorly equipped to combat the serious cases of tuberculosis, trachoma, smallpox, and other …