Fatal Contact : How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia's First Peoples

This descriptive narrative for students and scholars chronicles the impact of diseases brought by colonists to Australias Indigenous populations, beginning in 1788. Charting the spread of smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, measles, gonorrhea, syphilis, and COVID-19, the book details the biology of these diseases, the impact on Aboriginal groups, and the consequences that continue today. Distributed in the US by IPG (Independent Publishers Group). Annotation 2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)