1789 Sydney smallpox outbreak

Disease outbreak in Australia thumb|424x424px|Botany Bay in 1789. Smallpox in Australia In April 1789, Sydney, Australia, experienced one of its most violent outbreaks of smallpox when the disease swept through Aboriginal and colonial Australians on the coast.https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/smallpox-epidemic Smallpox epidemic National Museum of Australia 9 July 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=391&v=ZDQtUeTIHho 2:14 Chris Warren Smallpox, the First Fleet, and Port Jackson Tribes The outbreak began in early March with the first cases appearing in tribes living near Port Jackson. http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/was-sydneys-smallpox-outbreak-1789-act-biological-warfare-against-aboriginal-tribes nationalunitygovernment.org Sydney's smallpox outbreak of 1789 - Biological warfare against Aboriginal tribes 2014 24 June 2019 Aboriginal communities had no preexisting immunity to smallpox, and suffered mortality rates of around 70%. https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/smallpox-epidemic National Museum of Australia - Smallpox epidemic National Museum of Australia, Lawson Crescent, Acton Peninsula nma.gov.au en 2020-03-24 Smallpox in Sydney Aboriginal tribes on Arnhem Land first contracted smallpox when they made infectious contact with fishermen from southeast Asia.Peter Hiscock Archaeology of Ancient Australia https://books.google.com/books?id=DJPbwmo8gGoC&pg=PA14 12 December 2007 Routledge 978-1-134-30440-0 14 Governor Arthur Philip estimated that around half of the Aboriginal population around Sydney harbor died in the outbreak. https://books.google.com/books?id=DJPbwmo8gGoC&dq=1789+Sydney+smallpox+outbreak&pg=PA14 Archaeology of Ancient Australia Hiscock Peter Routledge 2008 978-0-203-44835-9 Abingdon, UK 14 Smallpox in Australia#Outbreak of 1789 References Category:Smallpox epidemics Category:1789 in Australia Category:18th-century disasters in Oceania