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Pox Americana
Elizabeth A. Fenn, Elizabeth Anne Fenn · 2001 · 384 pages
Smallpox -- United States -- History -- 18th centurySmallpoxHistoryUnited states, historyDisease OutbreaksHistory, 18th Century
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Fenn is the first historian to reveal how deeply Variola affected the outcome of the War of Independence, and why it caused a continental epidemic, affecting the lives of virtually everyone in North America from Florida to Alaska."--BOOK JACKET.
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