Summary
THE first Europeans to cross the Atlantic may have brought back the ingredients for cigarettes and chips but they took with them something far more damaging to health - disease.
These were simple, harmless diseases in their homelands, but virulent killers in the Americas, where the population had no developed antibodies to fight off the infections. The result was catastrophic, yet advantageous to the colonisers.See the full content of this document
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Wild Wales: Keepingthe Greyaway
But we are not the only species to take full advatage of our unwitting use of biological warfare. Since its introduction to England i...
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