1 | 1616 | - 1616—1620: New England infections epidemic
Affected Southern New England, British North America, especially the Wampanoag people, and killed an estimated 30% to 90% of specific populations.
Unknown source, possibly leptospirosis with Weil syndrome. Classic explanations include yellow fever, bubonic plague, influenza, smallpox, chickenpox, typhus, and syndemic infection of hepatitis B and hepatitis D
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