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Early Modern era · 1545 – 1631

Cocoliztli epidemics

The Cocoliztli Epidemic or the Great Pestilence was an outbreak of a mysterious illness characterized by high fevers and bleeding which caused 5–15 million deaths in the North American territory of New Spain during the 16th century. The Aztec people called it cocoliztli, Nahuatl for pestilence.

Cocoliztli epidemics
Cocoliztli epidemics · en:Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590), compiler. Original illustration by unknown 16th-century artist; this version of the drawing by unknown 16th-century copyist., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
1545 – 1631
Where
Central America
Era
Early Modern

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