The Lancet, Volume 356, Issue 9243
, Page 1777, 18 November 2000
doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)71976-0Cite or Link Using DOI
New thoughts on an old plague
Was the Huey Cocoliztli a haemorrhagic fever?
Lancet reader John Marr and colleague James Kiracofe have launched a fascinating—and possibly prescient—website based on a recently published paper. The authors hypothesise that the Huey Cocoliztli, an epidemic said to be responsible for the rapid demise of Mexico's Nahuatl culture in the late 16th century, was not—as has been suggested elsewhere—a form of smallpox, typhus, pneumonia, or influenza, but rather that the plague w ...
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