Reply #60: No it is true [View All]

Small Pox killed far more than the Bubonic Plague.

The Plague had three pandamics that killed millions the worst being the Chinese breakout which killed 12 million

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_(disease)

Small Pox on the other hand was not a pandemic but a consistent disease that killed an average 2 million people every year


During the 20th century, it is estimated that smallpox was responsible for 300–500 million deaths.<9><10><11> In the early 1950s an estimated 50 million cases of smallpox occurred in the world each year.<12> As recently as 1967, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that 15 million people contracted the disease and that two million died in that year. <12> After successful vaccination campaigns throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the WHO certified the eradication of smallpox in December 1979.<12> To this day, smallpox is the only human infectious disease to have been eradicated.<13>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_pox

If you combined all of the pandemics for the plague together you would be hard pressed to get to 100 million deaths while the most conservative figures for small pox in the 20th century (and it was cured by the 70s) is 300 million.

Small pox was by far the world's greatest death machine even outstripping armed conflict. It is just surprising that this clearly objective fact is not well known.