Talk:Timeline of global health

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Smallpox
"Referred to as the "virgin soil" populations, the natives catch the disease through smallpox-infected blankets that the colonists deliberately use to spread the disease.[2]" The link here is dead, and the seeming implication that deliberate spreading through blankets were the main way that smallpox was spread is false, especially in a section about the 1500s-early 1700's; the first well-documented evidence of smallpox being deliberately spread through blankets is from 1763.
 * I've removed that section for now, and will reintroduce information on pre-1750 stuff later in a more comprehensive and thoroughly referenced manner. Vipul (talk) 22:24, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

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