Disease tracker wants to rewrite Mexican history – Researcher says a native plague wiped out Aztecs
Tagged: aztec, HIV, Mexico, populationNot everyone buys the theory. But Acuña-Soto, who spent 12 years poring over colonial archives, census data, graveyard records and autopsy reports, is convinced that many historians are wrong about what killed the Aztecs.
“He argues that an unknown indigenous hemorrhagic fever may have killed the bulk of Mexico’s native population, which plummeted from an estimated 22 million in 1519, when the Spaniards arrived, to 2 million in 1600.
And he warns that the fever ”” which the Aztecs called cocoliztli in their Nahuatl language ”” may still be lurking in remote rural areas of Mexico.”
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October 15th, 2006
Fuente Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish
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