Smallpox+and+the+Aztec's

=SMALLPOX and the AZTEC'S= In this 16th century Aztec drawing, depicts smallpox victims. Cortes and the Spanish invaders had either contracted smallpox previously or had become immune, nevertheless upon invading the Spaniards inadvertently acted as carriers of the virus. This spread through the unsuspecting natives (as this was their first exposure to the disease) it eventually killed 3 million Aztecs with the remainder turning over power to Spanish commands, this overall exposure changed the fates of many Aztec's and the overall history. This pages bibliography: Image- http://rwor.org/i/091/smallpox600.jpg Written- Oldstone, M 1998, Viruses, Plagues and History, pp. 45-72, Oxford University Press, New York, USA.