http://www.kporterfield.com/aicttw/articles/disease.html
I was listening to a book on tape this morning at work that is called
"Demon in the Freezer" its discusses SmallPox a lot and there was a
small part talking about how in 1520 one Panfilo de Narvaez landed close
to Veracruz and how one of his black slaves came on shore with smallpox
and started an epidemic that spread into the heart of the Aztec empire
and eventually made its way all the way to the Inca's in SA. The author
was making the point that Smallpox "softened" up the continent very
likely giving opportunities that wouldn't have been there without its
devastating effects.
joseph
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De Narvaez, Panfilo , (1470-1528) Spanish adventurer, born in
Valladolid in 1470; died in Florida in November, 1528.
Panfilo De Narvaez went in his youth to South America, served under
several adventurers, and in 1510 was sent by Juan de Esquivel, governor
of Jamaica, to the relief of Alonso de Ojeda, who had