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Not until the conquistadors brought the necessary bugs.
by tzahola 9y ago
Not until the conquistadors brought the necessary bugs.
- ceejayoz 9y agoI'm fairly certain human waste had pathogens in it in the Americas even before 1492.
- tzahola 9y agoMaybe, but human waste is not intrinsically pathogenic. Unlike in Europe and Asia, American natives rarely had any livestock, so they didn’t have pathogens jumping from animals to humans.