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Why were infectious diseases much more lethal to Native Americans than to Europeans?

We know that native americans died from european diseases, but what about europeans?

  • wouldn't they have died from american diseases as well?

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    Many of the diseases native to the americas, natives taught settlers the cure for: like Quinine for Malaria, for example. Europeans brought their diseases with them, but didn't have any cures for them: Smallpox, measles, syphilis, influenza, ect.

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"But why didn’t the Europeans get wiped out by Native American diseases? The best guess is that Europe had been a crossroads for war and trade for a thousand years. Because of that, it had encountered an extraordinary number of diseases and plagues. On the other hand, the Americas were quite isolated. This meant that the Europeans had the stronger immune system. Not helping the matter, native Americans at the time were descendants from a very small group, their gene pool was limited. Immune systems thrives on variety. The greater the variety in the immune system, the greater number of microbes it can recognize and therefore destroy."

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Native americans died becasue europeans slaughtered them like cows.

white people slaughtered natives like cows

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