History assumes that Cortes and his army infected natives with European microbes, decimating the population. An epidemiologist challenges this belief, and offers up his own explanation for the massive numbers of deaths.
He believes that the plague known as cocolitzli could well be a form of hemorrhagic fever spread by rodents.
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