If smallpox didn't do it, then what did?
To distract us from the violence in the Middle East, Craig Newmark points us to an interesting article in Discover:
After 12 years of research, Acuña-Soto has come to agree with the Aztecs: The cocolitzli plagues of the mid-16th century probably had nothing to do with smallpox. In fact, they probably had little to do with the Spanish invasion. But they probably did have an origin that is worth knowing about in 2006.
Darn those revisionist epidemiologists! Is everything we learned in public school wrong?
