Historians have long suspected European colonists brought the smallpox-causing Orthopoxvirus variola virus to the Americas, ...

We warn readers that the content of this study is confronting and may be distressing. In April 1789, the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in the Sydney region began, just 16 months ...

Learn how centuries-old DNA linked an extinct virus to European colonization and its spread through an Indigenous community ...

Scientists recovered ancient smallpox DNA from two Indigenous mummies in Chile, providing the first genetic evidence that the ...

Camarones Pacific coast in northern Chile near the Inca archaeological site of Camarones 9, where two human mummies dating to ...

A woman in her thirties and a young man of about 20 died of smallpox in the first decades of Spanish colonization of the ...

Scientists have found smallpox viruses in the remains of people in Chile from around 500 years ago, revealing how the virus ...

As Aboriginal nations mounted a series of coordinated and strategic campaigns to defend Country against invading settlers, the smallpox epidemic spread across the southeast from 1830 to 1832. It ...

Smallpox was recorded around Port Jackson in April 1789, 16 months after the First Fleet established a British colony at ...

For thousands of years, people saw yellow eyes, dark urine and unexplained liver disease, but no one knew what caused them.