ELi5: Why didn’t europeans die too upon contact with new civilization?

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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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Europeans were living in shit, cheek by jowls with animals. Their dirty lifestyle helped with immunity.

Whenever you read other cultures’ accounts of early European people they all seem to mention how dirty they were lol.

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