I always believed that the infection that destroyed the indigenous populations in the Western Hemisphere was smallpox. Similarly, I thought that smallpox was the most likely culprit for Galen's Antonine Plague and probably many other plagues of Ancient Rome. This article prompts me to reconsider this notion.  https://www.archaeology.org/issues/298-1805/trenches/6524-trenches-mexico-colonization-salmonella This bacterium, which is relatively uncommon today, causes a highly virulent