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[-] TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Did Native Americans not have any diseases thay were picked up by white colonisers?

[-] SadArtemis@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 6 months ago

It's believed they had syphilis. But no other major diseases come to mind- perhaps because of the comparative lack of domesticated animals, or the smaller and less connected geographic area (compared to Afro-Eurasia), and perhaps because severe disease mutations would likely burn themselves out within such regions rather than travel the length of Afro-Eurasia like old world diseases...

[-] buttwater@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago

There are a few, most notably syphilis

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