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Essay:Greatest Myths of World History (view source)

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There are widespread rumours that Europeans deliberately spread smallpox among the American Indians. In fact, smallpox was endemic amongst Europeans, and they introduced it to the Americas unintentionally and without knowing the devastating effects it would have on the local population.   
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Anti-Christians teach that the Christian Europeans deliberately spread smallpox among the American Indians, as in handing out blankets with the germs. In fact, the germ theory of disease was not even discovered until the 19th century.   
       
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