THE SMALLPOX PLAGUE

In this entrance we will be writing about the smallpox plague that erradicated most of the native american population and disfigured the rest.

The Smallpox disease was first introduced to America by the Europeans in 1507 when they landed in the Caribbean Island called Hispaniola, from there it spread all over the country, one of the worst epidemics that swept Boston ocurred in 1721.

 

On April 22, 1721 a British ship that had recently left the Caribbean docked in Boston.

 

 

Some days after their landing in Boston one of the crew's member presented sings of having the disease, he was confined to a house near the dock with a red flag with the message: "God have mercy of this house". 

It was tought that smallpox had been effectively contained but when May came more of the men got sick too. Despite the effort of containing it cases of the disease started showing among the residents of the city.