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Talk:Essay:Greatest Myths of World History (view source)
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::::It is not hyperbole to suggest that smallpox needed no help to rampage through a population with little immunity. What is the point that I'm missing? [[User:Pepperlynn|Pepperlynn]] 00:26, 19 March 2009 (EDT)
::::It is not hyperbole to suggest that smallpox needed no help to rampage through a population with little immunity. What is the point that I'm missing? [[User:Pepperlynn|Pepperlynn]] 00:26, 19 March 2009 (EDT)
:::::When and where "germ theory" was "discovered" is not the point I think. Besieging armies had been catapalting plague-ridden corpses over city and castle walls for many centuries, and even when there was no plague, the effect of a putrifying animal flung by trebuchet into the defenders' water supply was well known throughout the Middle Ages. I have always tended to think the deliberate use of pox-ridden blankets was either a myth, or at most a very scarce occurrence, but there were certainly precedents. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 00:41, 19 March 2009 (EDT)