It is widely known that upon contact with new civilization, the indigionous people can be wiped out because they are not immune to our sicknesses; wouldn’t they also have some illness that europeans aren’t immune to?
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It wasn’t first contact, but equatorial diseases played enormous roles in the various revolutions in the Caribbean.
When Napoleon tried to regain control of Haiti he sent thousands of French troops to the island. Regiments had casualty rates of over 100%, meaning some guys got sick, recovered and got sick again.
Whole ships would arrive in port almost completely wiped out by the tropical diseases.
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