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  • Research Associate, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University
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Sydney’s 1789 smallpox epidemic came from the First Fleet and killed up to 220,000 Indigenous Australians: new research

Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University; Lynette Russell, Monash University; Matthew Cody Nitschke, Flinders University; Sean Ulm, James Cook University, and Shane Ingrey, UNSW

New mathematical modelling shows the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in the Sydney region may have spread thousands of kilometres and lasted decades.

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