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Since chicken pox was apparently a "new" disease to Native Americans, does this imply that the disease in humans is less than 12000 years old? Or does it imply something else (crowd disease? Siberian landbridge disease bottleneck? Others?)

by /u/crowjr in /r/askscience

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