The spread of European diseases around the world

Through a long period, Europeans had built up partial immunity to many diseases such as measles, smallpox, dysentery and tuberculosis. When travellers and settlers arrived in the Americas, Australia and many parts of the world, they and their animals brought death and destruction to the tribal and peasant civilizations they encountered. Filmed in an Australian graveyard, this recounts the tremendous losses among Australian aborigines.

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