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Read a narrative explaining the depiction in
De Bry's woodcut:
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How did European explorers spread diseases such as smallpox
throughout North America? Where did they go? With whom did
they have contact? To see where De Soto and others traveled,
carrying with them communicable illnesses not endemic to the
Native cultures they came in contact with, see "Spanish
Conquistadors in North America" at:
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How did Native Americans view Europeans and the diseases
they introduced to the New World? Read accounts of early explorers
and the diseases they brought to the Cherokee nation at:
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Link to a list of diseases indigenous to the Americas and
those introduced by Europeans at:
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In 1796 Dr. Edward Jenner developed the world's first successful
vaccine against smallpox. For more information on how Dr.
Jenner achieved this breakthrough to end a centuries-old scourge,
go to the Jenner Museum online at:
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