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IronLionZion

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12. That's the problem with uncontacted tribes

Reply to Throck (Reply #11)

Fri Dec 17, 2021, 11:54 PM

Dec 2021

if most of the world has antibodies and t-cells but can still be carriers of viruses, there are isolated tribes that don't have any immunity. Then some missionary goes to spread the good word and kills most of them without even realizing it.

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How did the Spanish Flu die out? [View all] no_hypocrisy Dec 2021 OP

My understanding is that that it didn't die out Sherman A1 Dec 2021 #1

People either died or they developed immunity. nt TexasTowelie Dec 2021 #2

It's still around today. Native Dec 2021 #3

What an interesting link Alice Kramden Dec 2021 #7

Makes me wonder if pandemics are part of evolution? Throck Dec 2021 #11

That's the problem with uncontacted tribes IronLionZion Dec 2021 #12

I read about that guy too. BigmanPigman Dec 2021 #13

My dad said his earliest memory was of a neighbor multigraincracker Dec 2021 #4

It didn't. You probably have had it. Loki Liesmith Dec 2021 #5

People still die of the flu, mostly the elderly. Tomconroy Dec 2021 #6

Roughly Feb. 1918 - April 1920 . ... Lovie777 Dec 2021 #8

Whatever the pandemic was back in time none of them were totally wiped out. Ka-Dinh Oy Dec 2021 #9

except smallpox of course - we nailed that one pretty good Blues Heron Dec 2021 #10