Epidemics: Smallpox

How did smallpox arrive in Victoria?It arrived on a ship shipping miners to Victoria.How many colonists were living there? How many Indigenous People?4,000 to 5,000 colonists and slightly more Indigenous people would camp nearby.What mistakes were made in handling the outbreak?There was limited vaccination efforts and “declining to try a general quarantine”What was the impactContinue reading “Epidemics: Smallpox”

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