How diseases like smallpox survived long ocean voyages

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Christopher Columbus’s expedition to the Americas arrived with ********* on board

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It is common knowledge that microbes hitched rides on long sea voyages like that of Christopher Columbus. But it was never inevitable that ********* like smallpox and measles would survive these early ocean crossings, which took a month or more. Now, researchers have used mathematical modelling to predict the historical risk of pathogens lingering in a ship’s population long enough to disembark with passengers.

“These ships aren’t just carrying a pathogen like it’s an extra piece of cargo – it…

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