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Posted by: anybody ( )
Date: January 15, 2018 01:14PM
Salmonella May Have Caused Massive Aztec Pandemic -- Why Not Lehi?

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/15/577681552/salmonella-may-have-caused-massive-aztec-epidemic-study-finds

So if the fictional Lehi and Nephi and followers actually did make it to Central America, they would have unknowingly brought diseases with them -- diseases that the local native population would have had no defense against.

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Posted by: Mother Who Knows ( )
Date: January 15, 2018 03:41PM
Re: Salmonella May Have Caused Massive Aztec Pandemic -- Why Not Lehi?

Maybe they got salmonella from eating each other.

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Posted by: Soft Machine ( )
Date: January 15, 2018 03:55PM
Re: Salmonella May Have Caused Massive Aztec Pandemic -- Why Not Lehi?

It would explain that battle in the BOM where everyone died... of ye olde dysentery ;-)

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