All ready talked about.. Small Pox is just the one most talked about as it was used by the US Army about 100 years after the Revolution.. And it did kill the most.
The diseases brought to this continent by the Europeans included bubonic plague, chicken pox, pneumonic plague, cholera, diphtheria, influenza, measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, typhus, tuberculosis, and whooping cough. The diseases introduced in the Americas by the Europeans were crowd diseases: that is, individuals who have once contracted the disease and survived become immune to the disease. In a small population, the disease will become extinct. Measles, for instance, requires a population of about 300,000 to survive. If the population size drops below this threshold, the virus can cause illness and death, but after one epidemic, the virus itself dies out.
Another important factor in the European diseases was the presence of domesticated animals. The source of many of the infections was the domesticated animals which lived in close proximity with the humans.
Overall, hundreds of thousands of Indians died of European diseases during the first two centuries following contact. In terms of death tolls, smallpox killed the greatest number of Indians, followed by measles, influenza, and bubonic plague.
Have you had them? What age did you have them? I have never had the chicken pox as I was vaccinated fairly young. My brother did not have them and my sister has so far not had them either. Neither has my boyfriend. I am a hypochondriac when it comes to the chicken pox. I always have a huge fear I am going to get them being an adult and it is going to be do painful and terrible
