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"Some it quite covered [with pustules] on all parts - their faces, their hands, their breasts, etc. There wasgreat havoc. Very many died of it. They could not walk; they only lay in their resting places and beds.They could not move; they could not stir; they could not change position, nor lie on one side, nor facedown, nor on their backs. And if they stirred, much did they cry out. Great was its destruction. Covered,mantled with pustules, very many died of them. And very many starved; there was death from hunger,[for] none could take care of [the sick]; nothing could be done for them."
Bartolome de Las Casas, 1519,
Florentine Codex
About the smallpox outbreak among the Taino people
What is de Las Casa describing in this quote?
(1 point)
How many people died of smallpox
The effect of smallpox on the Taino people
Daily life among the Taino
Treatment for smallpox
B)
Why were there so many deaths among the Taino?
(1 point)
Only de Las Casas could help
The Taino had no immunity to smallpox
No one could move around
There was no known treatment

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A) The effect of smallpox on the Taino people

B) The Taino had no immunity to smallpox