Linda, Thank for replying to that big long thing.

You wondered "Re the population of Native Peoples on this continent when the conquerors arrived - I wonder how much of those accounts are to cover up genocide. Man has a habit of hiding his crimes in tall tales."

The numerous digs; are showing that it was not genocide. But rather an unusual weather pattern driven by volcano eruptions of Iceland and Greenland. Europe's populations also plummeted at the same time too.

Also there was no measles vaccine in the mid 1970s here in modern United states. But they are giving some primitive people, that could not pay - for any modern medicine; a measles vaccine in the 1960s. And I don't doubt that the Yanomami was not some delicate, never seen measles before either. Measles was I am sure endemic to the Yanomami like all the rest of the world.

Birgit Calhoun and Linda;

There has been some serious archaeological digs taking place the last three decades.

A few years ago my son took a class, and they have discovered a great deal of what was going on prior to the 1400s.
For one thing; way before the Europeans even set foot in America, There were huge cities in Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio - mound builders, cultivating corn similar to South America. The population was huge.

They even found a burial of a chief in Missouri mounds that had buried with him a bunch of people, mostly young women who were killed at his death.

They have established that there was a drought, that brought these huge cities to an end, and brought an unstable environment that even reached and affected the nations of the eastern forest with war, thus devastating further the populations.
When the Europeans arrived in the 1600s the Native American populations had yet to fully recover. The Europeans had set foot on a land with a low population of people. Surprised! I was!

Another thing that a lot of people do not appreciate and that is there was a massive intermingling and marriages between the Native Americans and the Europeans. Not so much in the western areas I suppose, but very much so in the mid west, and mid south. If you look at the history of the massacre at a Fort in Alabama around 1812 the population that the Indians attacked were all mixed which pretty much described about all the population that was again on the rise called Americans.

The Cherokee nation was in fact, a few bunch of people sitting on a huge amount of land, while most of their children were mixed, and leaving. Some of my own forefathers were included in this. The Cherokee women that married white men, all took up the more European way of life.

I know that the last great Cherokee chief Joseph, I think he fought in the 1760s Indian wars, he too was half Scot and half Cherokee; he only had two children. He complained that the white man bred healthy children like rabbits while his only two, both were sickly. His daughter was - well it sounds to me a lot like autism - I don't know. His son had some kind of bone problem and was lame.

Yet, all around him; were mixed Europeans and Native Americans and they were breeding like rabbits healthy children. .

I would love to know what was really going on, in the environment with the ones that decided to stay together as a nation?
I have wondered if too many diseases had hit the Cherokee all at once, causing inflammation too.

But the Indian blankets with small pox did happen
Captain, William Trent, on June 24, 1763, dignitaries from the Delaware tribe met with Fort Pitt officials, warned them of "great numbers of Indians" coming to attack the fort, and pleaded with them to leave the fort while there was still time. The commander of the fort refused to abandon the fort. Instead, the British gave as gifts two blankets, one silk handkerchief and one linen from the smallpox hospital.

You know, what is a mystery to me is that the Yanomami has had centuries to come in contact with measles and has, you now it has. So it makes me really wonder what kind of measles virus was in those vaccines that was given in 1960s which made measles suddenly spread from the bulls eye of where the measles vaccines were first given.

Coincidentally, I was talking to my daughter about this tribe a day or two before your article and could not recall the name.  In my college class we referred to this tribe as the Yanomamo. 

However, I was talking to her about how quickly modern medicine changes your body (teeth).  This was a different tribe though that my dentist was telling me about years ago.  The study concluded it was the western diet destroying their teeth.  I thought otherwise ;OD 

You motivated me to find out what happened to the Yanomamo and I stumbled on the study my dentist was talking about:

http://www.yanomami-hilfe.de/en/campaigns-and-projects/second-medical-station-in-papiu-2002/

http://www.survivalinternational.org/lib/downloads/source/progresscankill/full_report.pdf

It's a shame.

It is not exactly a secret that native Americans all over North America way back in the 1600s already died of the measles. The original population had never been exposed to it. So they had no protection against this disease. There were many other disease that were imported by the white invaders. That's not unique to the Yanomami. It certainly has nothing to do with vaccines because there were no vaccines in those days. So, let's leave that aside. What is more important is the use of mercury in extracting gold from the ore and it's toxic effect.

Well, that is a very interesting twist, I did not see that coming! Surprise to me!

Teresa tied an early article she had written on a scientific study finding that hospitals using a mercury cleaner caused an increase in antibiotic resistant microbes, starting in the the 70s, and 80s in hospitals.

I have a doctor friend, and past school mate; who told me that the CDC further stroked my old professor's ego by giving him the task of working on these hospital antibiotic resistant strains. My ol'e professor; it bears repeating was subsidized by Merck, by giving him his own medical lab. All he had to do in return, was tell all the microbiology students, and nurses (so many nurses), that vaccines were totally safe, and those parents that said otherwise were all confused, pitiful ignorant things.

He was no doubt just one of many professors across the country that were preparing the way for the 1986 Congressional act, that we all know gave indemnity for the vaccine manufactures.

It has been 37 years since I have been out of college, and I will never ever get over that betrayal and deceit.

But the main thing here that Teresa found out; THERE ARE NO GOLD MINES AROUND the Yanomami, but there are vaccinations.

Same when it came to the people of the Appalachians which were given, after WWI; a three in one typhoid vaccine, every year, or every other year. The lay of the land and circumstances, at that time caused typhoid to be endemic in the area. In the Appalachians, they did not call it autism, or bipolar, or mental illness, or auto immunity; but lumped it all together as slow, backwards, lazy people.

The same will be said about the Yanomami in the future as they too must migrate to other areas or die because the hunter/gatherer society requires independent personalities, and fine motor skills. Many will migrate, but some will stay behind, and then the need for drugs will begin. Just as in the Appalachians which became the very first in the country to have pill mills, a major drug problem that rivaled any inter city slum. The Appalachians - became known as "Little Columbia".

Many on this website were eager to point out coal mining, like gold mining. Here too in the Appalachian it is a large area. There are not coal mines on every hill -coal mines are few and far between.

Maria Dominguez-Bello, even though she tells Teresa,the same old standard wore out theory on how safe and necessary are vaccines, she also unknowingly points to vaccines in her findings.

Maria Dominguez-Bello found in remote areas - far from gold mines antibiotic resistant strains in the gut microbiome, of a primitive and isolated tribe of people.

Again mercury causes antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria. Mercury is in the vaccines, and even if not the mercury; vaccines by design stresses out the weaker strains of gut microbes, leaving the more sturdier resistant strains.

Maria can't see that; does not want to see that, too much riding on her career to see that.

But Teresa has caught it, found it, figured it out, written about it, it is on the internet for all to see that have eyes to see. God Bless you Teresa and good work.

I also read Missing Microbes and shuddered when I read the author's blase comments regarding vaccination. Everyone being so smug about their precious vaccines need to read up on the history of medicine. There you will find "experts" who do not see the need for washing hands, who consider bleeding a patient (including those who have lost blood) a sound medical procedure, and had no issue with mercury as a medicinal. We know our history. Why are these so-called modern experts brain dead when it comes to vaccines?

To add to my comment: From "Leukoctye transcript alterations in West-African girls following a booster vaccination with diptheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine" Scandinavian Journal of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation, 2013;73:349-354:

"...several studies suggest that DTP affects the mortality ratio between girls and boys [4-6], being associated with several fold higher female than male short-term mortality [6-10]. Also, DTP-vaccinated girls have higher mortality than DTP-unvaccinated girls."

"Another approach we used was to identify the top genetic networks being altered after vaccination. This showed, not unexpectedly, that inflammatory response was among the top five networks in six of the eight girls..."

"The immunological explanation for the nonspecific effects of vaccines is not known at present."
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These scientists poisoned the Yanomami and altered their genetic expression and their microbiomes. What medical follow-up was given after these vaccines? Informed consent for this vaccination experiment would be impossible for these people to give. How many Yanomami were in the original research done to verify safety and efficacy of the vaccines they were given? None.

This is also a crime against all of humanity. What if it turns out that the cure for modern illnesses lies in the ancient microbiome that has been wiped out by antibiotics and vaccines in all but the Yanomami? And that the scientists just wiped out the last of those microbes, rendered them extinct via vaccination? They had no right to go in their and alter these people in any way. This was a great injustice for the Yanomami and for everyone else. These ignorant reckless scientists may have just endangered the whole planetary herd, for real.