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Pre-Contact North and Central American Disease Ecology
Disease ecology in North and Central America before 1492, including isolation from Eurasian disease pools and Indigenous health context.
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By Devin Teichrow. Published December 10, 2025.
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Disease ecology in North and Central America before 1492, including isolation from Eurasian disease pools and Indigenous health context.
Before 1492, the indigenous people of the Americas lived in a long-term isolation from the vast reservoir that was Eurasia’s disease pool.
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