Cocoliztli

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Cocoliztli was a hemorrhagic fever that occurred in Mexico . The affected people were bleeding profusely from their mouth and nose. The epidemics of 1545 and 1576, preceded by a smallpox epidemic in 1519-1520, cost millions of lives. The population did not regenerate for several centuries. The pathogen is unclear. A team of researchers published an article in Nature in 2018 in which Salmonella Typhimurium was identified as the likely culprit.

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  1. ^ A b R. Acuna-Soto, DW Stahle, MK Cleaveland, MD Therrell: Megadrought and megadeath in 16th century Mexico. In: Emerging infectious diseases. Volume 8, number 4, April 2002, pp. 360-362, doi : 10.3201 / eid0804.010175 , PMID 11971767 , PMC 2730237 (free full text).
  2. ↑ Cocoliztli - a worse epidemic than Corona , article on dw.com , accessed on May 2, 2020
  3. ↑ Centuries-old DNA reveals possible cause of an epidemic in early colonial Mexico. EU Publications Office, 25 January 2018, accessed 2 November 2018 .