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Aboriginal Australians resisted smallpox with ancestral health strategies

Aboriginal peoples in southeastern Australia fought the 1830s smallpox epidemic.

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Their methods included isolation, quarantine techniques, and remedies using fish bones.

These practices, long overlooked, demonstrate resilience against European colonization.

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Cette recherche réévalue le rôle des savoirs autochtones dans la lutte contre les épidémies, souvent minimisé par l’historiographie coloniale. Elle souligne l’importance de reconnaître ces contributions pour une histoire plus inclusive.

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