Pioneer

Columbus Day!  Italian pioneer, Christopher Columbus ‘discovered’ America on 12 Oct 1492 while heading for the gold & spices of the Far East.  His trips trading people, animals & food between Europe & America spread diseases – smallpox, measles, influenza – which decimated indigenous people, who had no immunity to them.  Travel & trade are routes to transmit infection, but never venturing out is no-go 

Guessed the Word?                  Series 66 (8/10)                  pic: AndPon