As noted, smallpox epidemics and social disruption reduced the population.

Smallpox epidemics often immediately followed European exploration and sometimes destroyed entire village populations.

Evidence has shown that at least two smallpox epidemics had killed the majority of the Kaurna population prior to 1836.

Smallpox epidemics struck the Atfalati and by the mid-1830s only 10 percent of the tribe was left.

Look at the thousands who have lost their eyesight on account of the ravages caused by smallpox epidemics.

It's the law that everybody in the republic has to have been vaccinated inside of the last five years to prevent smallpox epidemics."

At the time the people on Kyushu were experiencing hard times after the smallpox epidemics, years of drought and bad harvest.

Ceased to exist as a separate ethnic group after their defeat in 1706 by the Russians and the smallpox epidemics which followed it.

The Omaha suffered from smallpox epidemics in the early nineteenth century and were much reduced in number.

During the times of smallpox epidemics, he created a crude vaccination which saved hundreds of lives.

Some estimates indicate case fatality rates of 80-90% in Native American populations during smallpox epidemics.

In the late 18th century, the Alyutors were an isolated and secluded group of people, which helped them to avoid the smallpox epidemics almost unharmed.

During a smallpox epidemics in the Soviet era she bought vaccines and gave shots to the people of Kahrizli.

Besides those who died in warfare, whole tribes of Khoikhoi were severely disrupted by smallpox epidemics in 1713 and 1755.

By late May, smallpox epidemics were taking hold in Africa, South America and Asia.

Smallpox epidemics in that century devastated them, however, and by the 1800's their reservation was reduced to 2,500 acres in northeastern Montville.

Weakened by population losses due to smallpox epidemics as well as warfare, the Huron unconditionally surrendered.

There were smallpox epidemics and deaths from industrial accidents; meaning that the church graveyard at Chapel-le-Dale had to be extended.

Returning to Argentina that same year, he was instrumental in containing the smallpox epidemics of 1794 and 1796, becoming the country's primary advocate for popular immunization.

A series of smallpox epidemics and lack of trade forced the Mongols to repeatedly plunder the districts of China.

Survivors of scarlet fever and smallpox epidemics, the Dust Bowl and the Depression, they have been cracking 100 at least since 1950.

This village was devastated by the Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1862, in which native populations were reduced by 50-90% of their former totals.

Decimated by smallpox epidemics, the Wendat Confederacy became seriously weakened during the early decades of the early seventeenth century.

The tribe suffered a high rate of fatalities from smallpox epidemics in the late 18th century, which so reduced their population as to disrupt their social structure.

The McPherson Report also noted that the Catawba and smaller tribes suffered high fatalities in smallpox epidemics of 1738.