1837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic
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title:
1837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic
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The 1837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic spanned 1836 through 1840 but reached its height after the spring of 1837, when an American Fur Company steamboat, the SS St. Peter, carried infected people and supplies up the Missouri River in the Midwestern United States. The disease spread rapidly to indigenous populations with no natural immunity, causing widespread illness and death across the Great Plains, especially in the Upper Missouri River watershed. More than 17,000 Indigenous people died alon
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Disease outbreak in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1837_Great_Plains_smallpox_epidemic
date created:
2007-11-07T01:49:19Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T07:16:25Z
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